This Teenage Girl's Boyfriend is Herself! | House M.D. | MD TV 

Yesss 15 minutes!

what season and episode is this ?

I don’t know but this is definitely a interesting episode

@@DyreElsker78 Season 8 but I forget the episode #.

@@DyreElsker78 the description says it

I half expected house to say "cool" after doing it.

​@@jaregon12 honestly my therapist almost said it as well, when he saw me switch once too. i was diagnosed a few years ago, from childhood trauma. having a little, a trauma holder, and a protector ,is very common.

Mpd baby

@@jaregon12 I did say cool and was expecting him to as well lol.

I didn't notice a smirk from him.

Actually, ironically the drug WAS helping, the problem was that by helping it was masking the symptoms making it harder for her to get diagnosed.

So masking symptoms isn't actually helping

​@@threedragonstalk2123 it's a controlled substance so either she gave her kid someone else's prescription- or she failed to give the Dr all of her child's medical records. 😢 somethin ain't right

I think it was implied that the daughter was more than just ''moody''. Of course she was wrong, she need to take her daughter to a therapist because you know what else is wrong? Not treating mental disorder, not giving someone medicine they need (it's MEDICINE, not ''substance'', you're saying as if it were some drugs ffs).

It was so frustrating hearing the mom get angry at her daughter because she believed she was lying, when she was literally drugging her daughter and lying to her about it!

@McLoed22 Exactly. What would have happened if she kept doing it for years and suddenly couldn’t get her prescription anymore or any other reason the daughter would have to go cold Turkey off of benzodiazepines? She could have died. Alcohol and benzodiazepines are pretty much the only drugs you can die from if you stop taking them without tapering off. But of course, this is only a scripted show. Unfortunately, it is a reality for some people out there though I’m sure.

@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 I don’t understand what you mean by saying that OP is wrong for calling it a controlled substance. That’s legitimately, technically what it is. Also, people do use it as a drug to get high on. People can abuse morphine, but it’s also a medication- a controlled substance that is highly addictive. Right? I’m just trying to figure out what was offensive or wrong about the other person’s statement.

@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 Her "moods" were caused by her alters. And, depending how long she had been on them, she might be going through withdrawals, too.

right I was like yeah that's gonna make her trust you and want to tell you things.

Exactly. Psychologist here. Everything that mother does creates the opposite effect than what she thinks. Unfortunately it's not really that uncommon.

you got a manicure🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And a benzo nonetheless. That kind of wothdrawl can literally kill.

Ikr

​@zacharytaylor190 you would have to be be taking a strong dose daily for an extended amount of time

@@sunniecaffey7907the mother was giving her them under the guise of vitamin C tablets it’s pretty safe to say she was planning on continuing to drug her for the foreseeable future

I just assumed she actually had a boyfriend. Either she has another persona, as discussed in the scene, who is the girlfriend of such, or she’s just a girl who’s too ashamed to admit. Either way makes sense. Then again, I’ve never watched this show. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Why would it be added to the mix when it didn’t take place???

@@bloodysweetzombiegirl You misunderstand me. I'm saying I'm relieved that it didn't take place at all.

​@@bloodysweetzombiegirl DID involves this kind of abuse done to children. As far as I know, there are not registered cases of DID caused solely by other types of trauma. Guess the show didn't want to risk by going that far.

​@@Dan_ChironIt's believed something like physical violence can cause DID, but I don't know what the exact data is. I do know that the trauma has to be in young childhood, (9 appears to be the cutoff, but most takes place previously. And it has to be severe and repetitive, so one traumatic incident would not cause DID.

Getting a minor hooked on benzodiazepines is child abuse.

Parenting fail.

Think I'm gonna need a nap.

Huh. This is normally what I try to convey to every adult that I meet when I told/tell them they are wrong about something back when I was a kid. And SOMEHOW IM FREAKING WRONG EVEN WHEN I DID REAEARCH FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS ON THE BLOODY SUBJECT!!? And it's because I'm YOINGER (Grits teeth) Than em.

Whater you people talking about? She's the mother, and thats her daughter, she's entitled to do whatever she wants. Doesn't have to explain herself to anyone. Authorities are entitled to use guile and subterfuge in order to control the situation, case closed, end of story!

Considering how her mom reacts to her "being moody", there's probably a lot more subtle things going on than someone dying or any beatings. Your parents are supposed to be some of the people who support what you do and who you are the most, so your mom treating your emotions like they're something to hit with pills (even if she didn't know about the drugs until now) is some long term damage if I've heard of it. Also add on her visceral reaction to the other things the alters caused and you can imagine how their relationship works.

True, but I imagine daily thinking you were the direct cause for your fathers death and not being able to talk to anyone about it would put quite a mental strain on someone

@@capnfungi7875 Oh absolutely, but that's not the only thing she had to deal with; girl had massive issues that are perfect grounds for alters to show up, whether you mean DID (the creation of entirely new personalities) or OSDD (the separation of self/memories related to the incident that you can't bear to have, which become personalities of that point of yourself).

What about someone with DID who has never had any trauma? Where do these conferences take place? How can one join?

Perhaps you mean watching one's father die violently is potentially traumatizing. I watched my father die last year and had my hands on him as he slipped away. I felt his pulse stop. Yes, it was very upsetting, but as he'd been sick for a long time, after years of taking care of him, it was also a relief. At long last he wasn't suffering anymore.

? That's not what she said.

Her mom probably drugged her up too at that point

@@nikkimcdonald4562 But she put her child on meds.

Ya think! Teen Valium Vitamins hmmm interesting concept lol

You can medicate teenage mood swings, but if you do, how do you expect the poor teen to learn to regulate her emotions? A skill which is absolutely essential in the adult world because we have to deal with other stupid humans and difficult life circumstances waaayyy too much to be able to handle life without self control.

Vitamin chill

@@NoHomerS 😂😂😂

Happens more often than you think, I have liver damage because of it. Kids trust what adults tell them so they have no real reason to question it unfortunately

It's a soft take off of Gypsy Rose's story.

I just got orange tic tacs & was told they were "pills to help me concentrate!" 😂😂😂

Well and then watching him nod off because of the head trauma... That was scary

Your pay back time? Then we'll respond with a vengeance.

@@TheUnseenPath Our Vengeance will be greater than yours.

@@TheUnseenPath That vengeance will never take place. Cause in real life that mother will be sticking to a prison cell for child abuse :)

Madison Davenport is an amazing actor. In one of her other roles her character got possessed at the end of one season. At the start of the next season I kept wondering if it was the same actor because she did so good at playing the other role. They did change her makeup/styling but it was really the way she changed everything from her voice to her mannerisms that made her so unrecognizable.

@@feelingReckless13 "Are you staring at me? ...I didn't think so."

I agree, why is it any of Parks damned business how Chase choses to groom himself. If the positions were reversed Chase would be fired for sexism.

Taub with everybody lies

@@RaptorFromWeegee in a normal hospital setting yes. But everyone on the house team always was incessant about prying into each other's personal lives and analyzing each other both the men and the women, did you not watch the show?

@@The_Evening_Sun To be honest, no. I've only ever watched youtube clips of it. But I get your explanation and grudgingly agree. You gotta deviate from real world cause&effect in order to tell a better story.

@@RaptorFromWeegee ah I see. It kinda stems from how House to some degree is based on Sherlock Holmes. The original Sherlock from the novels being someone who could obsessively dig into a person's life and scenarios just by looking at different cues lick the way their hair is brushed and such, but at the same time possessed little to no care for social tact to the point of being offensive.

Take care! Also know that you can eventually integrate them into fewer or even one personality. It just takes a lot of time and effort (and therapy, of course!). Having fewer personalities to handle improves the life quality significantly.

Wouldn’t say only repeated trauma, but severe trauma. Nevertheless, God bless you and I hope you’re able to have a relatively normal and healthy life.

ok

@gb1reinwald Integration is not always the goal. Please update your understanding of Systems. Thank you.

@@Kiss_My_Aspergers I have a friend with DID, and she's made me well aware that alters are not just parts of someone's brain, but also their own people who have as much desires and worries as anyone else, including their own life. To try and effectively kill those other people through integration is always a terrible idea, and treating it as a way to "cure someone" does way more harm than having the alters ever could. Treat the other people inside you as people, work with them to operate through life, and you'll make it through together.

Thank you for sharing your story and for your military service. I'm amazed by your strength. You have my prayers. You're not just a survivor - you're a warrior.

@valjoriesheppard8084 If you Google my name "Glenn Brymer" you can see my stories.

I can only hope my generation has the strength you have, sir

VERY interesting. I went through a very traumatic experience last year after dealing with cptsd in childhood, and while it is very unlikely to be DID, I split into 5 other personalities, one of which was literally myself separate from external me as the host. We don’t really understand what happened, but we think my psyche shattered from betrayal, grief and heartbreak. For a while they would all speak to each other, sometimes they would take over, they fought, and my strongest personality (my intuition/survival instinct) didn’t even get along with external me or my representation inside my head. Each was a part of me, but they had different personalities, voices, interests, hopes and even hair colour/style/bodies. They kind of were reabsorbed earlier this year after a lot of therapy but the strongest one is still around and takes over without permission if I’m threatened or if I talk too much about my ex (which she perceives as a threat). It’s one of the strangest things I’ve ever heard of, and it made me fall even more in love with the brain than before (I’m a premed). Sorry for the super long description but because you said there were 5 of you and all of that, I related and wanted to share my experience. If you don’t mind talking about it, was your experience similar in any way?

What is it like, having other personalities "take over"? Since people apparently have to discover this is a thing they have, I'm guessing you aren't aware - but in that case, how do you experience the time during which another personality is driving? Do you lose time? How is information shared? If personality A makes a dentist appointment, does personality B know about it?

"Being normal is very important to Iris!" *Proceeds to have violent/traumatized multiple personalities and bleed/bruise everywhere.* I spat out my coffee. Damn, Kate Fuller cannot catch a break in any reality.

@@idy3176 she did on Black Mirror!

Love her as materia in final fantasy dissidia

​@@mary-janereallynotsarah684Which episode of Black Mirror? I don't recognize her. 🤔

​@@mary-janereallynotsarah684 Nevermind! I figured it out. 😊

that bothered me too. She was the only one with the trust issues. But it's overwhelming to be a single parent. Some of your worst fears come true, plus new fear of not being able to pay that mortgage, put food on the table, have that emotional and financial security that if you have an issue in life, an illness, a big unexpected expense etc nobody will be there for you and if you fall your kid ends up in fostercare. You feel inadequate, maybe even that you're failing your kid, you don't always have someone there to help you, so i can see some people doing their best to control absolutely everything they can. So i'm not saying that what she did was right, i'm saying they both need a bit of help and understanding

Hypocrisy.

I don’t know about that. My father lost custody due to conditions beyond his control. Later in life all of his kids blamed him for it but me. I was the only one in his life and I was the only one at his bedside when he died from cancer. He left me as is sole heir. He didn’t have anything of value to hand down to me. I think it was more of a statement. Its hard to agree that my siblings deserved him.

@@seth7745 they were not born with those vices, by default, what I said is true. But their choices as adults change that for them, and only then. Not before, or for other people. they were not children when they chose hatred. it is their fault at that point.

Getting a minor hooked on benzodiazepines is child abuse.

She didn’t know it was herself, she thought some guy knocked her up then abused her

@@Aegon1 Check this out. Have you heard of this thing called sarcasm? Some people are gifted with it.

​@Lol-es7ok you're a dumb dumb.

​@AK Lemon cant use sarcasm as an excuse for being wrong.

@Lol And they read into it badly. Case in point *jesters around the comments*

I felt I was lied too at a very young age by my father. my mother made him see sense they never told me she did that Nearly a decade of my life I had a grudge which was unwarranted. (I think? [English is 3 languages in a trenchcoat])

It's really impressive. Especially since this came out in 2011. Like, 12 years ago and it got that much rather well when so many other shows since then had been much much much worse.

@@slimek20 it really is, a good example for future media projects

Someone with DID might also be prone to false pregnancy syndrome.

they were saying one of her alters had sex and she was not aware of it.

@@mariahdibben4066 Gotcha, thanks for the clarification!

the girls boyfriend is herself poor girl is just lonely she needs your love🤣

And the older personalities only want to protect the little

Probably managed that because at the end of the day they want to protect well. The body for the most part in this case. And without talking to them all of them would be in danger

What’s the little??

​@@torakunoichi"littles" are alters that are very small in terms of age (around 0-6 years).

Maybe they weren't prescribed to the daughter? Possibly mom was getting a prescription for herself and "sharing" some of them.

Getting a minor hooked on benzodiazepines is child abuse.

A child cannot give consent

@@HolySpicoli Children can give medical consent. Your comment actually victimizes children, by basically saying they have zero say in what happens to them medically.. Children SHOULD be involved in medical decisions. Focus, i know this might be a bit hard for you to understand..but... Children can’t give consent when it comes to sex. But when it comes to medical needs.. CHILDREN SHOULD BE CONSULTED and allowed to consent or refuse treatments. You’re not advocating for kids, you’re HARMING THEM.

@@BMarie774 sorry i'm not sure which word i used was too complicated for you to understand

Thank you. I was wondering why she was bleeding at the end

@@zelorig8887 ovarian cancer

Thanks! I'd been wondering too

I mean he did train hypnosis indeed. He did it in the latest episodes of season 4 as well.

That man can hypnosis me any day!!

DID is more precise, since it's less about personality and more about identity, and it's a dissociative disorder which kind of categorizes it together with other similar ones.

Sorry that the APA strives through research to more finely tune their diagnostic criteria, boomer.

@@tmm6884 i dont think he was complaining

Love that the projections fly, and the insults come out as first weapon. It truly is diagnostic to see what triggers that response.

Who was getting hung up on semantics?

Littles tend to hold the trauma. They tend to be stuck in time.

@@ChaoticAphrodite i know, i have DID :)

@@lunarsystemshould’ve spotted that, friends. :)

well said. My understanding is that dissociation is normal in young children, and the disorder (whether DID or others such as OSDD 1A/2A/B (formerly DD-NOS), is a failure to integrate b/c of sustained trauma exactly as you described. In a sense, it is a completely normal response to an abnormal environment,.

DID isn’t even real lmao, plenty of therapists don’t recognize it as a real diagnosis. Even the popular cases were a lie.

We have to remember the detail that her life is in danger and the alters likely understand full well that if 1 goes they all go on some fundamental level. So that explains the time and appearance issue since some alters can reveal themselves in time or without a choice. For the dynamic one. The patient is the original. She is not an alter specifically. Her "boyfriend" is. And they likely mentally ahem. As her mind expected then the alter fronted and handled the rest. While we don't know her entire situation. The mother was willing to do diazeapam unprescribed due to moodiness. That's not a good sign for the houses health. Add in the car accident so young and the innate guilt it would form one. And from there more could form over time.

you were right about most things. however DID isnt just caused by prolonged trauma but also large trauma. she lost her dad and her mind couldnt process it, so it produced the boyfriend to help her cope through it. however the worse she felt about her dad the more her boyfriend would be there. trauma is defined as "a deeply distressing or disturbing experience" bullying can be trauma, even if just verbal and emotional bullying. abuse, even verbal, can be trauma. or having something bad happen that the brain may struggle to process such as an accident, or someone dying. for me, my trauma was being bullied, being attacked by dogs and almost dying. those 3 things plus a life of undiagnosed autism means I may have BPD. and whilst thats not DID it is also a trauma response and people with BPD can think they have DID or just have both. but you get my drift

Yess I agree I had undiagnosed autism that led to severe dissociation as a child and I developed alters.

…I’ve grown up with this song and I didn’t know those were the words. 😅

@@ToqTheWise It's Ozzy Osborne. What do you expect? But I'm pleased people are getting the reference.

I'm going off the rails on a crazy tra-ain.

Isn't that how toxic and dysfunctional people work?

Can't brain damage cause DID? I realize that receiving brain damage is usually traumatic, but it is nominally possible to get it absent any conscious experience.

Trauma's pretty subjective. Some people's minds have extreme reactions to things that others cope fine with.

@@jakepullman4914 DID only manifests when you experience trauma severe enough for your subconscious/unconscious to be convinced you wouldn't survive resulting in a level of dissociation so high it prevents the natural integration of one's person. Experiencing a car crash ad a child is pretty universally traumatic, so I really don't get your opposing stance here

@@tminusboom2140 Haven't heared from that yet. Personality changes from damage definitely yes, but early disrupted personality integration coupled with extreme levels of dissociation is a thing of conscience by today's knowledge. It wouldn't surprise me if literal damage can do it too, but I have yet to encounter a consensus stating so

@@Daffodillon Not sure how you read that as an opposing stance. Do you just assume anyone who says something different from you is opposition? I was just saying that the child could have been traumatized in ways the mother isn't aware of, because trauma isn't always obvious from a bystander's point of view. Because it's not an objective thing.

Her entire performance is flat, wooden and generally not enjoyable. In most of the fandom's generalized agreement. Just an fyi :0

I know right?? I didn't know she was the voice actress for Steven Universe until I recognized her voice. Pretty cool!!

She sucks the life out of every scene she's in. She was bad enough in Knocked Up with 45 seconds of screen time. How can you like her?

@@azazellon I agree. The whole noobie cast was extremely boring imo

Just the one season. She's super cute, the character is good with a good arc in the first two episodes. Later she has short arc with chase that's really engaging.

In their defense, he had some hypnosis training (a "rotation in Melbourne"), although in medical hypnosis not psychiatric. Assuming there's a difference.

@@MaxwellsDemon9 Hypnosis is a very complicated process and nobody but a professional should be allowed to conduct that

It's just a television show. It isn't even a reality show. No need to overthink or take it so seriously. Just enjoy it for what it is.

@@ladennayoung2939 I know that it's a television show, duh. A small accuracy won't hurt though.

​@@raizahasmath5580I'm not complaining about that compared to some of the CPR they've done 😂

Bruises showed up that night when the alter boyfriend took control. She best herself up

As a system myself I was also pretty surprised at the accuracy of the condition! I do agree MPD and DID are different but I think it's probably so they don't have to explain to viewers what the concept of DID is

@@RippingStars Same here Some people don't know what D.I.D is and they only understand it once you use what else it's called which is multiple personality disorder then it clicks

System?

Why did she start hemorrhaging??

@@ilexevergreen5405 System is the word we use to describe all the people in our head! An alter is a single person

Lots of kids are on medication and don't know what they take. Are you going to arrest all those parents?

@@SR-iy4gg YES....

Right??? Me too! I fucking can´t remember and i don´t know why.....watched the whole series too and not just one time....watched it at least 10 times and still can´t remember 😮😮😮😮

S8 ep7, you don't remember because it wasn't the main part of the episode , there were 3 stories going on and the last part of the episode wasn't about this

You have multiple personalities disorder, wake up

​@open ur eyes there was 2 stories not 3

@@UmbreonDarkness69 There were*

Where have u seen it? This video wasn't a perfect representation of DID, but it was one of the better and still acurate ones. That's why i wonder how/where u've seen it.

This is pretty accurate tho

This case is briefly discussed further within the "4 Year Old Boy Exhumed to Find Out the Cause of his Death" clip that was posted 8 days afterwards. (They're both from the same episode.) But there wasn't much left about this one... maybe a minute or two worth of details.

But seriously diazepam?! You do not give it unless it is a prescription from doctor..If she was giving it to her daughter without it she is guilty of poisoning a child. Where was "trying not to hurt" part.

Yeah cut her some slack, she just drugged her cause she was "moody"

I hope you’re not a doctor

@@lubystkaolamonola529 Obviously the show is known to skip somethings and overdramatise others , that's why anyone who have ever worked in healthcare know how stupid most of these solves are. Top notch drama though. For ex. In this scene , daughter clearly have anxiety disorders and panic attacks and for the sake of drama a subtle enough DID that escapes everyone except House who's never even seen the patient till then , benzodiazepines are a good medicine for her symptoms (though ssri works better if you discount the till that time unknown dissociation identity disorder ) and she might be put back on them alongside chemo but they didn't show that in show. Thing is diazepam is not an OTC and require a priscription. The mother in the episode doesn't seem to show any irresponsible behaviour , is attentive to her daughter , understand teenage troubles, doesn't blame her and is conscious of her daughter situation, so I assume it's unlikely she would just start giving her daughter a priscription medicine just on her own. Most likely she asked a psychiatrist to assess her daughter in friendly non clinical environment as some personal favour. It's not unheard of. But if that were the case there would be doctor's note in her health file. Such inconsistency though are replete in the show usually for some dramatic effects. Thing is most doctors are not Sherlock Holmes to know that a patient's spouse is cheating by seeing their skin tan ( though a particular orange person comes to mind at that) , But most House episodes have so convoluted sequence and reasoning that most doctors would reach the diagnosis in less number of steps and less near-dead patients. But yes , I too categorise my diagnosis as either its Lupus! or not Lupus!

​@@drewpott Just because someone is moody, it's not worth it to drug someone, especially without a medical license. All teenagers are moody at some point in their life. It is illegal to impersonate emergency services and use drugs that you need a license to use

No you haven't lol

@@oiltycoonbillionaireoh, omniscience. Fun

We? are you counting yourself and your imaginary alters?

@@nimamehranfar8310 cause of alters , they refers to all

​@@nimamehranfar8310To those who have suffered the traumas that induce DID, they aren't "imaginary"... The alters surface at times when the person is emotionally overwhelmed as a means of protecting them from further trauma. It is akin to what some might refer to as a fractured personality; I think of it more like the facets of a diamond... Each facet, or side, reflects a bit differently and yet each of them is necessary to see (and appreciate) the gem as a whole.

ah yes lets expect a series filmed in 2004-2012 to be able to predict the medical future! Because the "new" medical shows are so accurate and reliable

Well it's specifically just for helping someone get into a certain state of mind so that the alters come out and speak. It's not hypnosis in the "I can control you" way

@@thisisaperson660 hypnotism is pseudo science, even when it aired.

He did this in the episode before the Season 4 finale.

@@Sal_Sal27 yeah and there was also an episode where house becomes a VETERINARIAN.

he uses hypnosys two or three times, and once on House even

How did she became pregnant? Did the second personality have sex with someone while the girl is unconscious?

​@@Violence4Breakfastyes

​@@Violence4Breakfast She had cancer but it appeared to be pregnancy because similar enzymes or something.

at least her boyfriend had a physical body

@@thisisaperson660 😂

Lmao I was actually tearing up about her blaming herself for the accident and then I saw your comment and my eyes were like tears?

Maybe your other personality watched it, while it took over

Well, the vitamin narrative did have a use but not what I thought unless she owned up to taking the vitamins a lot more often than suggested in a later part of the show.

That’s so interesting! My mom treated a DID system where one alter had high blood pressure and the other did not. Also, when talking about DID systems, it’s proper to say “one alter…and another alter…” instead of “one personality and the “person”.” Every member of a DID system is technically an alter, even those who appear to be normal people (often called “hosts”).

@@floatingdaisy3256 I'm no expert, I only looked these 'things' up after that cool movie about the insane asylym? with Samuel L Jackson. It's really really interesting that it "medically deep" in there and not just "thoughts". Or feelings. These medical things happening seem impossible that one could "assume them" just by the mind "changing" to an Alter, a personality trait that developed as a response to the person's environment. For instance, with the other changes to the alter, could you also weigh 10 pounds more?

@SuperChuckRaney No problem! I try to educate people. Oh, you mean the movie Glass! Yeah-it’s the sequel to Split. Honestly, that sequence of movies has done much more harm than good for the DID community. Aside from feeding into the misconceptions that we’re evil, it also supports the idea that there’s one’s “real person” who unfortunately has alters. In reality, everyone in a DID system is an alter, but outsiders just perceive one alter as being “the real one” if that alter just so happens to appear the most normal or functional. In reality, all alters are real and necessary for full functionality by taking turns doing different tasks. It is fascinating! Alters can’t make a body weigh more, since weight is absolute, not variable. (I mean, bodies can gain or lose weight, but not in the short amount of time that a switch between alters happens.) What can happen, though, is that different alters can **feel** as if they were heavier or lighter, or taller or shorter, than the body actually is. One of my alters, for instance, consistently feels taller than the body, so she often gets disappointed when she looks in the mirror and realizes that she’s short. (She also stands up straighter than others, so, in a way, she is taller, ha ha!) Another alter who’s very, very young often get surprised by how long our arms are, because she expects them to be shorter. She get surprised that she can reach things without needing a chair. She doesn’t front very often, so she’s still getting used to how much our body has changed since childhood. I also have guy alters who expect to see a male body when they look in the mirror, so they get weirded out by our reflection and avoid mirrors and windows and try to wear clothes that flatten our chest so that they’re not freaked out when they look down. (This is gender dysphoria, the same thing that trans people experience.) Different alters can also feel pain and fatigue differently. We can be completely exhausted physically, but, if certain alters switch in, we’ll get a burst of energy, and they’ll stay up late because they won’t realize how tired our body actually is. They sometimes will stay up for 30 hours straight because one not-sleepy alter will switch to another not-sleepy alter, who will then switch to another non-sleepy alter, and no one will register that we need to go to bed. (Losing track of time is a symptom of DID/OSDD 1b; we have the latter.) We have an alarm set now to remind people when it’s bed time so that that doesn’t happen, because, even though people may not feel sleepy, not sleeping is still bad for our body. Alters developed to not feel sleepy because we used to get PTSD attacks at night (PTSD is integral to DID/OSDD-1a/b), so alters needed to stay awake and not feel sleepy in order to enable us to function during the day. A few alters, though, always feel super tired. One of them in particular has depression. Our body can be fully rested, and she’ll front and immediately need to lie down. Our body has a gastrointestinal disease, so she also feels pain from that more than others. Some alters don’t register pain from our disease (they can feel pain if something obvious happens, like if they bump into something or get burned, but they don’t register the chronic pain that our gastrointestinal disease causes unless someone points it out), because we used to get abused during childhood if our parent noticed that our disease was flaring. Being part of a system is a really, really cool in some ways, but it’s also a lot of work. It helped us survive in childhood, but led to a lot of issues during college, since we were out of the abusive environment, but we didn’t know yet that we were a system (it’s very common for alters to not know that they’re alters and just think that they’re forgetful), so we were constantly getting frustrated by our homework not getting done, hours feeling as if they melted away like minutes, staying up way too late and then feeling exhausted the next day, finding phone numbers in our phone from people we didn’t remember meeting, etc. It seems to be common for systems to struggle in college, because they don’t have to deal with as much from childhood anymore, but haven’t figured out yet that they’re alters. Now that we know (in terms of body age, we’re in our late 20s), we can work together to make sure that all of our strengths and weaknesses are maximized. If we didn’t get enough sleep, we try to switch to a non-sleepy person so we can get through the day. When the night-time alarm goes off, we try to switch to a sleepy person who can be responsible and get us to bed. When the pain from our disease is making it hard to function, we switch to someone who won’t feel it as much. When we have to go to a doctor’s appointment and talk about where our pain is and how severe it is, we try to switch to someone who can feel the pain so that they can give the doctor accurate information.

@@floatingdaisy3256 okay SO while at college, ALL your alters KNEW the subject matter?

No, not at all. Some of us knew some of the school material, others knew other material, and some only socialized and talked to friends. It was a very hectic time. We knew that we had a “study version” and a “hanging-out version,” but we didn’t realize that we were alters. Our body has a seizure disorder, so we just thought that our switches were seizures (feeling foggy-headed, then getting disoriented and feel like a different person, then having to take a few seconds to figure out what was going on) and figured that was why we had so much difficulty at school. It’s actually kind of heartbreaking, to be honest. Before we went to college, we took a college-level course in a certain subject at a very good university while still in high school (we were only 16 at the time) and got A’s on almost all the assignments. Right before college, however, a bunch of alters went dormant due to a horrific series of traumatic events. During college, we took another class in that same subject and got an F, straight across F, because we couldn’t remember any of the material from high school. We majored in something completely different from what we applied to college for, which really confused our family members. In our mind, we knew something was very wrong, but we didn’t know what it was. We knew that a bunch of memories and skills and a whole lot of information were missing, but we didn’t know why. We didn’t really tell anyone because we didn’t want to get sent to a psych ward or sent back to our abusive childhood home. We didn’t know that it was because alters who had that knowledge were dormant. Those alters came back out of dormancy our last semester of college, though, and we took basically double the regular number of course credits and did really well. (Also, a few different alters have been replying to your comments, so there might be slight discrepancies in how we frame or phrase what was going on between one reply and the next. This is how things looked during college from my perspective. I know that other alters in the system have their own takes on what happened. I just remember us struggling a lot and getting bad grades in the thing we used to be really good at and doing well in completely different subjects.)

This isn’t MD tv, this is House MD there is a full episode

why is she bleeding

@@m3ga13 She was having an miscarriage

@@nataleighjones4596 oh geez- that causes the stomach to bleed???

​@@m3ga13 blood loss in that region, due to her clothing it showed there first

Do you actually remember what happens in your alternate personality?

They're probably fakers. It's a very rare illnes and trendy on tiktok.

@@__lillie__ "self aware" DID patients that tell you they have it are usually fakers, in order for you to be actually self aware of the situation it's likely you've actually created a new schism alter that I would call "the spectator" alter. It's argued that this one always exists kind of as a mechanical need. (Say for example a girl that might hit herself because one alter is hitting the other, this "spectator" might be the one doing it so the other alters have cleaner memories of the fight). This spectator one that is self aware is unlikely to talk to people about the situation, to be self aware of the situation you'd likely be self aware that explaining it to others sounds a lot like introducing an imaginary friend to somebody. If you know somebody with DID, one of the altars might have received the diagnosis but will not really be able to conceptualize how it works to you at all, otherwise you'll get the "who's at the controls" moment and figure it out on your own when you notice how drastically different a person is acting, or might actually throw some other curve ball like a different name, or them not recognizing you, or worse... one alter may actually have a very different opinion of you. The only person I've ever met that _likely_ had DID was a girl that had been caught "cheating" on lots of guys, people thought she was just a terrible liar as she on different days explain which one was her boyfriend, but even that was only a suspected case since a girl that goes around cheating might also act like that. It's hard for people with DID to have friends, because one alter may inadvertently (or intentionally) sabotage your relationship with somebody. Imagine for a moment, this is a dumb example but can simplify the concept a little, one of their alters is racist and and the other alter is friends with a black guy, then imagine the situation where the racist gets behind the wheel when hanging out with that black guy. So knowing that you're friends with somebody that has DID that isn't "faking" it is unlikely, because you're friends with one of the alters, and you'll likely only ever see that specific alter, unless the alter you meet is the "spectator" which, as I explained before, isn't going to be dying to tell you about their imaginary friends.

@@__lillie__ this was before tiktok fam, I've known these friends since middle school

​@@__lillie__ supposedly about 1% of the population (the sample I looked at was us based) although there seems to be some what of a sliding scale of what that means.

​@@__lillie__I can only imagine why people with a rare condition would flock to those with the same condition. Almost like they'd want a sense of unity and camaraderie to know they aren't alone in their struggles. Alternatively, it's pretty common for people with a condition to be lumped together with other people who have the same condition socially. It's assumed that since they have the same condition they MUST want to be with others like them, and those who are affected generally don't want to be rude by rejecting others, so they choose to go along with the whole friend thing.