Roleplaying and Dissociative Identity Disorder
Roleplaying is mainly used as a noun and defined as the acting out of a behavioral role or assumed character (“Roleplaying”, 2013). Note that the researcher will use the term roleplaying for faking dissociative identity disorder in the paper. Roleplaying is done with the assumption of any role you want by acting like it. If people fake and act like they have many personalities or having dissociative identity disorder, there can be a proven assumption that they are just like roleplaying. Notice that roleplaying is acting out a personal or behavioral role. Dissociative Identity disorder is sometimes being faked by some people to gain attention and greed desire for love. It is mainly one of the …show more content…
There are people and critics of dissociative identity disorder that says that it is not real because they say that dissociative identity disorder is a "fake" disorder suggested to highly hypnotizable patients. However, recent research has objectively verified the accusations of abuse of patients diagnosed with DID (Otnow-Lewis et al., 1997). There are verifications and researches that identified clinical features and nature of dissociative identity disorder from a person whom does not have it or just faking having it. The researcher uses the previous researches of dissociative identity disorder as evidence that dissociative identity disorder is not merely a fiction but a real disorder. According to Sar, V., Yargic, L., & Tutkun, H., (1996), they had studied analytically a person having dissociative identity disorder and normal person without …show more content…
Common people and psychology students can determine that it is not demonic possession and it is really dissociative identity disorder by just lucidly noting and determining the differences and quite minor similarities of dissociative identity disorder and demonic possession. Understanding different features between the two can precisely eliminate the vague and unsupported misapprehensions. Schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder tend to be difficult when we hear those words but building blocks of knowledge among the two can easily help common people and especially psychology students to know their mistakes in why they mistakenly confused those two different psychological disorders. Thus, they can easily forbid the creation of mistaken prejudices on dissociative identity disorder. In addition to the ideas, dissociative identity disorder is sometimes judge as fake disorder and sometimes people who has a deficit on attention role-play having dissociative disorder. Common people and psychology students can recognize that dissociative identity disorder is not a fake disorder and not just a role-play disorder but an authentic disorder by accumulating all the facts stated on the paper. Indeed, dissociative identity disorder is being role-played by some people but psychology students and common people must have the idea that it is not