“With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery]. - Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID)” SuicideMental IllnessInsanitySuicidalDissociative Identity DisorderMisconceptionStigmaStereotypesMultiple Personality DisorderSelf HarmMultiple PersonalitiesMental DisorderSelf InjuryMisrepresentationSplit PersonalitySuicidalityBilly MilliganThe Crowded Room Author:Bethany Brand
“Because of media portrayals, clinicians may believe that dissociative identity disorder presents with dramatic, florid alternate identities with obvious state transitions (switching). These florid presentations occur in only about 5% of patients with dissociative identity disorder.(20) How ever, the vast majority of these patients have subtle presentations characterized by a mixture of dissociative and PTSD symptoms embedded with other symptoms, such as post-traumatic depression, substance abuse, somatoform symptoms, eating disorders, and self-destructive and impulsive behaviors.(2,10)” StereotypeDissociative Identity DisorderMultiple Personality DisorderMultiple PersonalitiesDissociativeMedia DistortionMedia JournalismPosttraumatic Stress Author:Bethany Brand