Challenging me to think about the disorder I was diagnosed with is good. My description is a summary of how I understood the explanation given to me.

As you said, each personality is complex with memories and behavioral patterns. But, if the host personality did not split, where did the alternate personality come from?

I understand this article's point of a dissociative disorder being a development disorder and not a personality disorder.

Given my experience and understanding why the mind disassociates, I question calling it a "disorder" and "treating" disassociation as long as the person is functional. I think a better alternative is help the person develop the skills they lack. This is not brain surgery.

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday