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DID In Popular Media

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Not only is DID often ignored, it is commonly viewed as an illegitimate diagnosis, even by many mental health professionals, because of the presumption that people use the diagnosis as an excuse for wrongful actions. According to Theresa M. Urbina from the Western University of Health Sciences, in the past, DID, or MPD, was considered by many to be an "iatrogenic effect of the suggestions and interventions of misguided therapists" (Urbina, 2017). The DSM-5 states that individuals who feign DID tend to be undisturbed and may even appear to enjoy having the disorder, whereas patients with genuine DID tend to be overwhelmed and/or ashamed and even underreport or deny their symptoms (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
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As stated earlier in the paper, people with DID has often been portrayed as violent and dangerous, dehumanizing the people who have the disorder. While stories like the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde may be dated and made during a time before dissociative disorders were better understood, they still represent those with different alters as monstrous and inhuman. However, popular media still continues to misrepresent people with DID today. The antagonist of the hugely successful movie, Split, is shown as unreliable, vicious, and, like Mr. Hyde, non-human towards the end. Fortunately, the movie did face significant backlash and controversy for its stigmatization of mental illness. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation delivered a statement discrediting the stereotype of dangerous DID patients and condemned how the film was made "at the expense of a vulnerable population that struggles to be recognized and receive the effective treatment that they deserve" (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation,

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