I don't know that it has anything to do with IDPOL or white guilt. It's just the modern social media version of the same attention-seeking stuff that happened when Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve came out.
I see this with adults in SJ circles. People reinvent themselves and add IDs to shield from accountability re: white supremacy. Typically they hide behind the MH stuff when they’re found out (a la “This is too stressful I can’t have these conversations”). Rinse and repeat. However, I’ve seen it a lot more with people claiming non-white racial identities (and we have enough recent examples of academics doing this and being exposed….)
Attention is a hell of a drug (reinforcer).
I think in most causes this isn't malingering (faking for material gain) so much as factitious behavior (faking for attention). Interestingly enough, neurological clinics have also seen an uptick in Tourette's-like behaviors with unusual/illegitimate clinical presentations during the pandemic, also apparently fueled by social media. In other words, good old mass psychogenic illness. COVID-19 related increase in childhood tics and tic-like attacks | Archives of Disease in Childhood
There is an exceptional (in my opinion) accounting of how to conceptualize and treat someone presenting with DID from a science-informed cognitive behavioral perspective in the book Case Studies in Clinical Psychological Science: Bridging the Gap from Science to Practice. I can't recommend the chapter on DID or the book as a whole highly enough. It's actually cheap as hell right now (compared to when I bought it several years ago). Great book.
My conceptualization of it is much closer to a shock response. Immediately protective in a moment of acute trauma, but not something that is healthy or sustainable over time.
Ugh. I find this with ADHD and dopamine and "dopamine traps". The reductive model works so well for getting patients to take their stimulants though.
Endorsement of the DID critical item on the PAI is super high in college folks. Upon interview I've never seen or supervised the case of anyone who endorsed it but didn't just mean what you said there.
I think allowing these individuals to change there diet to something that is pure , such as an organic plant based diet. There already under a biochemical imbalance . So helping the body with pure good nutrients, instead of food that isn’t doing anything to the body could be a start .
There are fads that come around every few years. While the role of the gut biome is an interesting academic area of study, my take on the literature has not been very convincing. And, more importantly, (I think) none of it is associated with dissociative disorders. Additionally, this thread is about the over-reporting of dissociation and dissociative disorders (another fad that has a long track record of ebbing and flowing).
It really seems like we are just always going through cycles and history repeats itself. Except instead of movies and TV shows it is social media now. I do the best I can to address this stuff at the undergrad level. Not sure what more I can do about it. I imagine it will come to its own end as it did seemingly every other decade.
Is this a troll?
Flip side: I once heard an intern say that the fact that that a patient didn’t have a specific memory of walking into the counseling center (not that they were disoriented and suddenly ended up there; that the person just did not have the specific details of the walk in memory) was evidence of a pervasive amnesia disorder. Just saying patients don’t have the monopoly on bad interpretation of symptoms.
This sounds like the psychology version of "When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras."
That's terrifying.Exhibit A:
Napa neighbors shocked to learn naturopath accused of offering fake COVID-19 vaccine cards
The case against Juli Mazi began with a tip from someone who claimed she provided his family with pellets to swallow, and claimed they contained tiny amounts of COVID-19, enough to trigger an antibody response.www.ktvu.com
Yes, I've seen similar instances with trainees in the past (e.g., patient describes frustration that lots of other people seem to look out only for themselves that's labeled as paranoia). Usually seems to come from a place of limited to no experience with the symptom/condition under discussion. It can definitely be helpful, just like with patients, to explore and reframe the interpretation. And ensure the trainee appreciates the significance (and importance) of their impressions.
This! I think you can absolutely tell when you are no longer talking to a person, and instead talking to an attached concept/label/diagnosis/story/etc. I feel it sometimes, the conversation changes in tone.
Or “it’s my rejection sensitive dysphoria because I have adhd and so the internet told me that I have rejection sensitive dysphoria.” (Tagging @cara susanna because I know you share my pain here).
This can also happen when folks from marginalized groups talk about systemic or interpersonal oppression.
I think a lot of these people may either be thinking of BPD as a dramatic “aesthetic” disorder and/or a “get out of expectations and consequences for bad behavior free” card. I imagine that they would find DBT quite “ableist.”
I love how they gloss over the money part (paypal/venmo link in bio)!Found this recent article when googling "TikTok dissociative Identity disorder"
Inside TikTok's booming dissociative identity disorder community
Influencers who say they have DID, once known as multiple personality disorder, are a vocal — and controversial — presence on the app.www.inputmag.com
Oof.
Yes, because secondary gain must make you rich or it doesn't count.
I also like that part where the dude is like "I was just hospitalized and went inpatient... but having DID is no biggie."
