What Was D.I.D.?

In the simplest of terms, D.I.D. is short for Dissociative Identity Disorder, which used to be known as multiple personality disorder. According to a London based psychotherapist named Graeme Galton, “Dissociative identity disorder is a complex post-traumatic stress disorder. The purpose, psychologically, is to protect the mind when a traumatic event has taken place.”

Splitting Into Different Personalities

To further explain the disease, Galton shares, “To do this, the mind splits off the memory of the trauma into a separate identity. That means that, in its most original and true form, there is an amnesiac (memory) barrier between different personality states, although some people can develop flashbacks or nightmares.” He continues, “People may just have two or three personalities, but I work with some individuals who have an enormous number. Sometimes people who have experienced multiple trauma, especially as children, have separate identities for every traumatic incident.”