r/DiscussDID

So, one of my friends has DID and their system is primarily made up of 'problematic' alters: such as >!murderers, addicts, etc.!< They're mainly fictives, but not necessarily close to source. Is this a common thing in systems? I'm worried about the affects they may have on my friend.

>Problematic as in the way they interact: actions, how they think and how they feel. Not so much in the: "this person did bad things and is therefore a bad person" way.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to interact better with these alters, I'd love to hear them.

Edit: There's more explanations in some of these reply threads, I recommend looking there, too. ^^

Mew mew deltarune brought this question into my mind

A loved one came to me about a situation that caused them to fear a split, and I am worried that the person who is responsible for potentially causing the split will try to minimize the situation. I don’t want to burden my loved one right now as they are distressed and feeling guilty that we’re having to navigate this situation at all. Anyone have some good analogies I might be able to share to bring clarity to this situation and express how severe it is?

So we have alter, Simone, and she wants to watch a youtuber we like and we're like "Why not? He's got a new vid." We go through it's epic and we're chatting when suddenly the credits roll and she notices this YTer we both love now does characters of people's Patreon names. She gets uber excited and is like "I totally wonder what mine would be? Hey give me some cash for a com so I can get on Patreon this month." This brings about sadness in the host as this isn't even the second time this situation has happened. Just last month one of are more content with sharing an account alters wanted their own Minecraft and expected us to purchase on a sale. We already have two accounts by accident but the other is claimed by two sperate alters who seem content with sharing it. Ugh How do you deal with sharing money with alters? Getting a second bank account isn't an option. We are barely allowed to have one in the state we live in because having ADD and Autism apparently makes you unable to handle cash. -.-; Idiotic ableist bearcats

Hi !

I just stumbled upon the instagram page of a girl with DID, and I saw that she had fictive alters, like Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Jinx and Isha from Arcane, etc.

As I don't have DID myself, I was wondering how does that work ?

Does the brain watches a serie / film and randomly decides that it's gonna create an alter from an existing character ?

And in this case, does the alter thinks that they really are the character, or are they just inspired by the characters personnality traits ?

Thank you :)