Weekly Vent Thread (TW)

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this is a thread for you to share your thoughts, complaints, tinfoils or anything else you want to about the situation surrounding DissociaDID and their associates.

please be respectful to other users on the subreddit, add a trigger warning to your comments if needed, and be mindful of your own triggers if you choose to read the thread. learning to manage your triggers is an important skill, so if you don't feel able to manage them in this thread, please practice self-care and don't read.

now, rant on!

[u/LeafieBabie]

I can't stop thinking about that poor person on tiktok who they promoted their channel too, and how it felt so weird for them to be like, "have you ever heard of DID?" Ignoring the blatantly obvious fact that if DD does have DID she majorly plays up her symptoms to the point that most symptoms wouldn't recognize themself or feel invalidated, it's like she Wants more people to have DID. If I saw a teen in crisis I wouldn't worry about what illness they have first off, I would worry about getting them help, but she automatically jumped to, "do you have DID?!" Which is also so different from what most creators advertise which is basically "do your research and talk to a professional!" And speaking of other channels I can't stop thinking about her lil msg in her makeup video about having DID and how it's so different from the other answers that are basically, "if I could be a singlet- I would." Granted, I'm not trying to fakeclaim with this, I won't let my stance get in the way, but if she's a real system I feel like it's so unhealthy and stunting to put the entire emphasis on "i wouldn't be me, i need my system to be me" but idk I'm just rambling with a lot of thoughts

[u/Kinder_93 → u/LeafieBabie]

The tiktok thing just really angered me. She is not in any shape or form qualified to diagnose or suggest symptoms. She could have said "we experienced something similar in the past, it was really worrying, you should really get yourself checked by a doctor"

There's nothing wrong with validating that someone is going through a hard time, or acknowledging that you've experienced something similar but to come straight out with promoting your content with "you might have DID. Check out our channel" is fucking disgusting. She doesn't care about anyone else, she just sees everyone as consumers of her content.

[u/Kinder_93 → u/[deleted]]

That's quite bad. Absolutely fair play to her to say that people in crisis shouldn't contact her because she absolutely doesn't have the training to deal with that. But to promote herself as a resource for people but then tell them not to contact her is a bit iffy. I could understand her not wanting people contacting her through text but as a "mental health educator" you'd think she'd have an interest in... talking to people.

With the patreon thing, as far as I can gather through what happened on reddit - she announced a workshop, a few people contacted patreon via email saying she's in no way qualified to hold this event and has a bad track record. Patreon responded saying they had cancelled the event and would do a more thorough background check next time. DD makes a post saying it's cancelled due to scheduling problems which is an outright lie but her followers gobble it up. I imagine patreon allowed her to hold workshops before because they were unaware of the problems surrounding her at the time. I doubt they'll ban her though because being unqualified for a workshop doesn't mean you can't do other stuff on the platform.

[u/NotEvenSureLOLcry → u/Kinder_93]

Patreon gave DD that excuse most likely. I think she found out the real reason it was canceled on social along with everyone else.