Normally I wouldn’t reblog stuff like this here, but please don’t see this movie. Dissociative Identity Disorder is so misunderstood to where it’s constantly played off to be faked/made up, so “rare” you would never meet anyone with it (it’s actually about as common, if not more, than schizophrenia or autism, but misdiagnosis and stigma even in the medical field is rampant), or in the case of this movie, portraying those with DID like dangerous killers.
I’m appalled that it’s almost 2017 and we have a movie like this coming out when DID gets so little recognition that this is just really dangerous misinformation to spread, for not just mentally ill folk, but those with DID specifically.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is not a personality disorder (and referring to it as multiple personalities is incorrect), but a Dissociative disorder that develops in childhood when repeated trauma causes a child to be unable to integrate a singular sense of self. New alters form in response to a stressful/traumatic situation. Titling the movie “Split” is even more horrific because it’s using a term specifically used to refer to when an individual with DID undergoes enough trauma/stress to have to split a new alter to survive as a horror movie title portraying alters as dangerous.
If you’re interested in learning more accurate information, I usually recommend this site because it is wonderful: http://did-research.org/
There’s also a page here that debunks some myths: http://did-research.org/did/myths.html
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