No, and we have to be careful saying things like this because it can invalidate the real issues with personality disorder such as DID. Most DID experts will tell you there are certain prerequisites for this very rare disorder, such as a
specific trauma that caused the original protective dissociative state to begin with. While the media and the multiple personalities over- diagnoses in the 80’s at the height of when certain film on DID came out, portrays it as the imagination running away with itself, this is incorrect. There are two opposing viewpoints on personality disorders : imagination versus trauma induced Or a combination. The Imagination theory on DID has mostly lacked evidence at this point in the history and study of DID. DID experts who take the trauma induced theory seriously are tired of arguing with the “imagination” viewpoint. While DID patients are certainly “highly suggestible” by nature, which is why we have to be extremely careful with false memory implantation in our work with DID patients, they are far from stupid. In fact, their brain has figured out a way to survive often brutal sexual (not always but mostly) trauma by sending natural opiates and other stuff to the brain in order to be numb enough to “check out” and not deal with the pain of the event so that their brain can process it later (or not). It’s a freeze reaction to trauma, when fight or flight is not possible. Early childhood trauma often disrupts the natural personality growth, splitting off the natural processes of personality from the rest of the full personality. This is why integration is so important as it allows for these damaged parts within the psych to find their place back into the system. Sometimes this isn’t able to happen, and the patient can only gain an awareness of this other part, and learn to heal this part and eventually find acceptance and learn to communicate with these parts so that the entire system can work together, like a team. We all dissociate. It’s a natural thing and something as small as “highway hypnosis“ is a form of a dissociative state. Altered states of consciousness happen in all sorts of levels in the brain, from REM sleep to being high. I think it’s important to understand they nobody “goes out is their way to create an alter.” Most DID patients are unaware of their alters and experience amnesia. To say they are making it up or imagining it invalidates their real often confusing and embarrassing situation. Most all DID patients have something in common and that’s that they are extremely embarrassed about their parts ,often trying to “hide” them. The alters are often subtle, not a grandiose cartoon Imagined from watching too many shows With their favorite characters in them. The trauma a lot of these patients experience is real, not imagined, and to deny their alters is to deny their trauma ever happened, which is the worst kind of gaslighting one can do to a person with DID. These patients need empathy and compassion. They themselves are skeptical, and embarrassed, and this is not helpful for the radical acceptance that is needed in order to heal and reach full integration.
I think it's possible, for instance, this paper specifies that "Chūnibyō behavior can occur because of excessive admiration of animated character so that one can be dissolved in an imaginary world. " : file:///C:/Users/Moi%20Gene/Downloads/33356-1513-65955-1-10-20170904.pdf
No, and we have to be careful saying things like this because it can invalidate the real issues with personality disorder such as DID. Most DID experts will tell you there are certain prerequisites for this very rare disorder, such as a
specific trauma that caused the original protective dissociative state to begin with. While the media and the multiple personalities over- diagnoses in the 80’s at the height of when certain film on DID came out, portrays it as the imagination running away with itself, this is incorrect. There are two opposing viewpoints on personality disorders : imagination versus trauma induced Or a combination. The Imagination theory on DID has mostly lacked evidence at this point in the history and study of DID. DID experts who take the trauma induced theory seriously are tired of arguing with the “imagination” viewpoint. While DID patients are certainly “highly suggestible” by nature, which is why we have to be extremely careful with false memory implantation in our work with DID patients, they are far from stupid. In fact, their brain has figured out a way to survive often brutal sexual (not always but mostly) trauma by sending natural opiates and other stuff to the brain in order to be numb enough to “check out” and not deal with the pain of the event so that their brain can process it later (or not). It’s a freeze reaction to trauma, when fight or flight is not possible. Early childhood trauma often disrupts the natural personality growth, splitting off the natural processes of personality from the rest of the full personality. This is why integration is so important as it allows for these damaged parts within the psych to find their place back into the system. Sometimes this isn’t able to happen, and the patient can only gain an awareness of this other part, and learn to heal this part and eventually find acceptance and learn to communicate with these parts so that the entire system can work together, like a team. We all dissociate. It’s a natural thing and something as small as “highway hypnosis“ is a form of a dissociative state. Altered states of consciousness happen in all sorts of levels in the brain, from REM sleep to being high. I think it’s important to understand they nobody “goes out is their way to create an alter.” Most DID patients are unaware of their alters and experience amnesia. To say they are making it up or imagining it invalidates their real often confusing and embarrassing situation. Most all DID patients have something in common and that’s that they are extremely embarrassed about their parts ,often trying to “hide” them. The alters are often subtle, not a grandiose cartoon Imagined from watching too many shows With their favorite characters in them. The trauma a lot of these patients experience is real, not imagined, and to deny their alters is to deny their trauma ever happened, which is the worst kind of gaslighting one can do to a person with DID. These patients need empathy and compassion. They themselves are skeptical, and embarrassed, and this is not helpful for the radical acceptance that is needed in order to heal and reach full integration.
I think it's possible, for instance, this paper specifies that "Chūnibyō behavior can occur because of excessive admiration of animated character so that one can be dissolved in an imaginary world. " : file:///C:/Users/Moi%20Gene/Downloads/33356-1513-65955-1-10-20170904.pdf