Paula’s case study was interesting to me because the only other knowledge I had of DID before reading her story was from the movie Split and I didn’t learn anything about the actual disorder from doing so and skewed my perception of DID. In the movie Split, he seemed like a normal guy until he had the girls locked up and then he was abusive and violent towards them. He would switch between personalities at random without an obvious reason why. What I now know is that specific stressors trigger specific alters to handle that stress and I see the misconception that media portrayed of DID. Emotionally, I was able to better understand why she could completely disconnect in the moment of the traumatic event and how her lack of social support could