Medicalized Multiplicity

[lb_lee]

Also, okay guys, the alphabet soup for Multiple Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder, and Unspecified Dissociative Disorder is just way too much of a fucking mouthful. (And that's still not including the trance disorders and crap.) MPD/DID/DDNOS was still somewhat manageable to say, but MPD/DID/DDNOS/OSDD/USDD is absurd.

I vote we just call it all medicalized multiplicity and give up.

--Mori

Comments

[the_network]

Honestly? Sounds good to me

I think at one point we were referring to it as disordered multiplicity but obviously that creates issues because not everyone disordered wants to be pathologized or is able to be diagnosed, etc and not everyone who had the diagnosis is disordered anymore (and MPD didn't include disorder in the criteria I don't think)

[lb_lee]

You're correct about the MPD bit. MPD didn't even require memory issues! (Which is why, depending on the DSM edition, you can make decent arguments for whether we're DDNOS/OSDD, but we're still pretty classic MPD.)

--Mori