“Basic misunderstandings about DID encountered in the therapeutic community include the following: ° The expectation that all clients with DID will present in a Sybil-like manner, with obvious switching and extreme changes in personality. ° That therapists create DID in their clients. ° That DID clients have very little control over their internal systems and can be expected to stay in the mental health system indefinitely. ° That alter personalities, especially child alters, are simply regressive states associated with anxiety or that switching represents a psychotic episode. Anyone who experiences dissociation on a regular basis knows better, however. DID is not only disruptive to everyday life but is also confusing and, at times, frightening.” TherapyDissociative Identity DisorderMental Health StigmaDissociativeRegressionMisdiagnosisMental Health SystemSybilDissociative SymptomsHidden DisorderHidden SelvesMultipler Personality DisorderStereptype Author:Deborah Bray Haddock