Gainesy88

What are you thoughts on the now famously debunked Sybil case? Stigma it has thrown onto DID and it's veracity as an actual disorder? Since it is impossible to ever truly know someone's inner workings do you ever have the slightest doubt that your patients are faking?

That's an interesting take, but I feel like the same be said about any mental divergencancy in such a dismissive tone. Mental health experts validate and influence depression, anxiety, Autism, etc? Even trauma. Which impacts how those disorders shape and influence our lives. And those disorders, in my experience, are often like dealing with distinct personalities with varying degrees of overlap. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine how brain plasticity could stretch to the point that distinct psyches have formed to protect different parts of the whole. Each unique formed from the amalgamation of knowledge that exists in any given person's mind. It's definitely one of those things I'm delighted to learn more about as we continue to understand the brain.