Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Meet Art and Asher — two of at least 33 separate identities living within one body. Brut spoke with both of them about what it's like to live with DID, a disorder formerly known as "multiple personality disorder."

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[aronwhan]

We are not monsters. We are just trying to function. To live. Do not ask a system what trauma tbey have. If they feel comfortable around you they may choose to talk about it. But do not force it. Just be respectful.

[suzyallen]

That is so sad that people would hate you. I dont have did but I have watched a lot of videos and from what I understand is your other personalities are protectors not violent people. They were created to help you through very hard times. They are nice people comprised of all your parts. Only to protect

[wcatblu]

It sucks that people ask what their trauma is, that's so incredibly invasive

[cocoann]

Thank you for your honesty! It is not very rare! More people have did because of severe child abuse! This statement is for the negative people making bad comments! I’ve been dissociation for severe abuse. We can be very successful ty for sharing it’s helps not to feel alone

[annemurphy]

I have D.I.D. There's over 200 "parts/alters" in our system. This was good to watch! We just had a book published about us, it's in French!

[MaggiesMusicDID]

Our system has over 60 alters and we have found a way of embracing DID by composing music. We are now doing a documentary about creativity and DID to help others.
Thank you for sharing your story

[moretoexplore]

Your video was awesome and very educational. I appreciate the fact that you all have accepted each other, it was a major turning point in moving forward. Congratulations!

[kaminathespiral]

what did they mean by the dark streak on the face, when i was having my "schizophrenia" panic I saw a dark line on people face

[pipopipero]

This is very informative. Thank you for your courage, is inspiring to me... I do not have DID but something

[mayj]

I have a friend with DID all parts of the system are good people

[monalisasweetheart]

I know how you feel! It's been hard understanding myself and my parts and at times I am very anxious and depressed from it!! Wish people just would understand what it's like and how hard it has been!! 😔💔

[Ohkeh]

How does he handle stress I’m prescribed Valium daily it’s tough but I practice self care sleep eat and try workout daily and just be kind to myself

[theecosmetaverse]

We are a DID System of 42 members.
There are so many attention seekers on the Internet that we dunno anymore who is real and who is fake...
Stay safe, everybody ❤
-Carlota.

[Onewholeftformilk]

0:43 ah yes, the sound of discord notification, love it.

[papasensalsaverdeconarroz]

This is what the DID community actually needs

[brandonmoore]

hey art hey Alex hey guys Brandon here nice to meet you all because I just want to say hey and hey what's up and I just want to say hey how's it going guys just want to say hey to all your guys in your system guys hay hi ❤everyone plus I just want to also say there's nothing wrong with you guys you guys are perfect beautiful brilliant and awesome plus also everything 😊🎉❤plus if i go to the spirit world with you guys in the spirit maybe one day I might see you guys in the spirit with all my tulpas and alters and systems long with many other people's tulpas along with all my tulpas to but also along with every single tulpa that I created also along with many others of people's tulpas all my tulpas live in the tulpa Multiverse and megavirus too 😊🎉🎉🎉

[zezozi]

I have 150 alter/parts in my system and.. yes days are geneallt terrebly hard but.. yhis type of videos gave me hope about sociaity

[josephbelisle]

You all are so brave. I could never do this.
I believe you. I have DID too.

[codenamestark]

I don't think this is a genuine case of D.I.D but I feel this way about any Tiktok person or Youtube person claiming they have it. Mainly bc I deal with it myself and I'm not able to function let alone record my switches, edit them, upload them and script them. Oh well.

[gheata_playz]

i have a lot of questions so I'm gonna constantly edit this
how exactly does switching work?
do you black out or does it slowly happen? how fast does it go? does it take a few seconds or can it happen as fast as turning around? (sorry idk how to spell the definition)
Can you talk and interact with the other alters?
On a scale of 1-100 how accurate is crazy jane?
Do you know who's gonna switch with you or not?
Can an alter forcibly switch with you? like for example "Yeah no im not letting you deal with this, imma just" *pulls alter and replace them*
Can an alter keep something for themselves? for example one of them learns math but decides to keep it to themselves? if so then
Is muscle memory also affected? for example an alter learns how to fight but decides to keep it to themselves, does that mean all the other alters don't know how to fight?
Can alters share memories and/or share what's happening in their surroundings? for example if you're in a test and all of a sudden you switch, will the alter know what is going on or not?
Can an alter have a different problem? for example an alter having cognitive alexithymia or schizophrenia
Can an alter become so traumatized that they have to be replaced with a new alter? for example a child alter being replaced by a new child alter when they couldn't handle it (the trauma)
I know this is kinda offensive but imma ask anyway, just skip this if you want
what level of trauma does someone have to go through to get DID? because I've seen someone that experienced extreme trauma and didn't get DID or does it only happen when a child gets traumatized?