Hey deserving listeners, I thought I would answer some patron

e-mails. If you're a patron, your emails get preference if you email me your

questions. So let's answer some emails here. I've been getting some

questions about dissociative identity disorder.

I have a I had a rerun where that was from eight years ago.

We so we we posted a rerun episode from eight years ago in which I said that I wasn't

quite sure about dissociative identity disorder or more the used to be called

multiple personality disorder.

In that episode from eight years ago,

I said something along the lines of,

you know, there's a controversy about whether or not

it really exists or not.

And I want to be clear in the intervening years of training and

more investigation eight years been probably I don't know six years ago or

something I set out to answer the question for myself as a clinician,

is dissociative identity disorder a thing, is multiple personality disorder a thing, because I had heard that some people make it up and it's just this fake diagnosis doesn't really exist and I consulted with experts I actually started treating clients with dissociation and dissociative identity disorder

looking into the research, the forensic evidence, and I'm here to tell you it is 100% a thing. It didn't take me long to realize. Once you actually talk to people with dissociative identity disorder, you realize, oh yeah, this is a thing. Now, can some people fake it? Absolutely. People fake all sorts of things all the time, but the vast majority of people who claim they have dissociative disorder, do indeed have the disorder.

We've made episodes where we go into depth on it,

but just in brief, when we are young,

age two, three, four years old,

and we are going through something that is very scary,

something very traumatic, something very difficult for us.

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