TikTok's Trend of Pretending to have Dissociative Identity Disorder

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This chapter discusses the trend on TikTok where people pretend to have Dissociative Identity Disorder and shift between different personalities. It explores the origins of the disorder's popularization and clinicians' past speculation on its causes. The speaker argues that repressed memories and multiple personality disorder are not real phenomena, but rather ways individuals create identities to make sense of their lives.

Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.

Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites.

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