Dissociative Identity Disorder controversy

hi hi i don have did or anything i'm just writing / researching this for funsies cause i like psychology . this is just one part of a whole did thing i'm writing up but j thought it would be cool to share on here idk ,,  im new to this site so idk if this would be an ' appropriate ' thing to blog ? 🎀

dis is just a draft . i still need to clean things up and word some things differently , cause as it stands the middle part is  more of a collage of the wording of separate articles i've read instead of my own wording , which makes me feel guilty  🥣🐾🍮

Controversy 

[DID is by far one of the most controversial of all psychiatric diagnoses. Here we'll focus on major controversies surrounding the disorder, including outdated models, malignance, and infamous cases.]

The sociocognitive model of Dissociative Identity Disorder follows the belief that DID is not an authentic disorder, but rather it is a creation of psychotherapy and the media. Most recent research disconfirms the sociocognitive model. In a reexamination of the subject of an author who previously supported the model concluded that the evidence for this model is based on numerous false assumptions about psychopathology, assessment and treatment of DID. 

While DID is absolutely proven to be a valid diagnosis, pseudogenic DID is unfortunately far more common than most might want to believe, notably recently compared to the past. We now have publicly accessible sources of information regarding the disorder, which can assist in the sophistication of facetious DID presentation. The rates of malingering have been estimated to range from 7% in non-forensic settings to 17% in forensic settings. Overall facetious disorders are thought to have a prevalence of 0.5-6% within the overall population. Potential signs that can indicate that an individual may be simulating DID include; an openness about the disorder and one's traumatic history, continuity of memory, affect tolerance, reporting inconsistent abuse with one's medical records, a lack of comorbid Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), attempts to prove that one has the desired diagnosis, dramatic or bizarre symptoms, exaggeration, pseudologia fantastica, selective amnesia, lack of prior dissociation. While individuals with pseudogenic DID may not display all of these warning signs and while individuals with genuine DID may display a warning sign or two over time, an individual who displays a large number of these warning signs should be examined very carefully.

The history of facetious and malingered simulation of DID extends back to the sensationalized Sybil, a biography of a woman with Dissociative identity disorder. After its publication (1973) Sybil turned out to be an absolute success with over 400,000 printed copies. Within a few years of its publication, reported cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder (at its time; Multiple Personality Disorder) leapt from very few to hundreds of thousands. As it turned out however, the events peddled within the novel were far more fiction than fact and the novel was soon exposed as a product of the collusion of a selfish manipulative triumvirate of a patient, psychiatrist, and author; Shirley Ardell Mason.