Posted

Jun 21st 2007

Mood

Delighted

Music

Hammer To Fall - Queen

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/58072489/

A short, illustrated article-thing on D.I.D., Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Read it now - it WILL enhance your understanding, appreciation and view of "split personalities".

Now I wish someone would make something similar for bipolar disorder (a form of depression); so often I see roleplay characters with a tiny note attached to the end of their bios: "she suffers from a bipolar mood disorder, and so can be a dangerous character to be around". They don't understand that bipolar disorder is a severe mental illness that often results in suicide; it shouldn't be trivialised and seen as an excuse to have two characters in one body (as D.I.D. often is - the reason I mention this). I have to go eat supper, but here's an extremely informative...thingymabob, without any technobabble:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm