Significant Other

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is still largely misunderstood, that is why it is important that people learn to understand that DID doesn’t make a person dangerous. Movie characters with DID are often portrayed as violent homicidal people who have no control over their state of minds. The only thing these movies accomplish is to further confuse people about DID and make the producers a little richer. The reality is that DID does not increase violent behavior in a person. In fact, people with DID are no more prone to violence than people without an identity disorder. While every DID system is unique, those with violent alters tend to direct their aggression toward the inward life. This means that much of the violence is geared toward other parts on the inside. Some alters can be unkind: I am married to a wonderful lady with DID. My experience has been that while she had some abusive alters, who routinely made me the target of her pain, she was never dangerous to our