There’s been documentation of it for decades, even strictly in professional contexts. Why is it so common for doctors to not believe in dissociation, nonetheless dissociative disorders?
There’s been documentation of it for decades, even strictly in professional contexts. Why is it so common for doctors to not believe in dissociation, nonetheless dissociative disorders?
Huh, not that it comes up often but there are doctors who don’t? One of my kids has this issue and they’ve always seemed receptive
Edit: missing question mark makes this the opposite
I suspect there’s some skepticism recently because a sort of Internet subculture developed around it being “cool” and some folks are adopting it as an affectation, and further prizing a diagnosis as real cred. So some people are shopping mental health professionals in pursuit of a diagnosis for that subculture.
When I read things like that I wonder who is mischaracterizing what. It seems like many mental issues are things that are normal to a degree, but very different scale from being diagnosed with the corresponding mental disorder.
I do think that’s broadly an issue, and unfortunate when a condition catches “cool” factor and suddenly a bunch of people want to be that. Feel like the trend started with" Asperger’s" in the 90s when a certain group of people liked the concept of “Autistic, but not bad, it just means an asshole who is smart”. Over time we now have ASD, ADHD, and DID as conditions that are actively desired among certain subcultures. Which really can muddy the waters when it comes to mental health diagnosis.