What is the most realistic portrayal of DID? ***Trigger***

I've only seen The United States of Tara, but I was wondering what you would recommend as a fictionalized portrayal of DID.

I find that fictionalized portrayals are often more accessible, but, as with other psychiatric disorders (BPD leaps to mind) some aspects are sensationalized while others are romanticized.

I would recommend a one season TV series called Shattered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_(2010_TV_series)

It's about a homicide detective that has DID. As you might imagine, some of it is exaggerated for the entertainment factor, but despite that it's a very good series and it's probably as accurate as a mainstream TV show is going to get. It's the only fictional portrayal of DID I've seen yet that realistically shows what it's like to lose time and to have to cover for it. Be warned if you watch it though, it might be triggering as there's various amounts of violence and sex throughout the series.

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Voices Within - The Lives Of Truddi Chase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-cDqzq8 ... plpp_video
Dramatized,fictionalized for mainstream comsumption.Mostly one of the closest representations of a person with DID from media or Hollywood .
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DuckToTheFace wrote:I would recommend a one season TV series called Shattered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_(2010_TV_series)

I agree, thought it was pretty ok too.

If you google movies that protray dissociative identity disorder you will get alot of info. I recently watched the movie Don't Look Back on Netflix. Hope that helps

Watcheroflights, thank you so much for posting that link. I went to it and watched the movie last night, and yes! This is so close to how it is in my home (I am a support person, my BF has DID) and his switches are seamless like Truddi's. I really got a lot from this film.

One question/observation: I saw how Truddi became angry with her husband, and daughter, repeating the abusive behaviour....an introject quite possibly, but I have had something similar happen in my house. My BF does not exhibit sheer anger, but I have had him get quite stern and cold with me, and all of a sudden, it would occur to me that it wasn't really ME he was talking to at all. Is this common? Anyone else have this happen?

Alln1 wrote:If you google movies that protray dissociative identity disorder you will get alot of info. I recently watched the movie Don't Look Back on Netflix. Hope that helps

Don't Look Back (Ne te retourne pas) does a brilliant job of representing the subjective experiences of a DID crisis. Plain to see are the disorienting and crazy-making experiences of depersonalization and derealization, the dawning understanding that your childhood was not what you were told it was and your current reality is not as real as it seems, the uncanny knowing and unknowing both, and all the varied "hallucinations" of DID.

Many reviewers were bewildered by the film, not recognizing what they were seeing. And there is no explicit verbalization in the film to clue in the viewer as to the nature of the problem. I recognized that it was DID, of course; I totally identified with the main character Jeanne. But what interested me most was that my husband got it, all of it.

Wikipedia: Don't Look Back (2009 film)

I am an SO to an incredible man with DID. We both watched the United States of Tara together and in our home, that has been a VERY close fictional portrayal of DID for us. It is, of course, exaggerated to an extend, but the general portrayal is very accurate.

Yes, United States of Tara was scary on-target in so many ways. My favorite scene in the whole series was when Tara and her husband finally have the meeting with Tripp, the horny guy she knew in college, and new information comes out and this provokes a revolving door crisis. Been there, done that.

I also got a lot out of that very same episode...my favorite scene was when she was on the phone with Max and told him about how she was in college and was looking forward to summertime, and the next thing she remembered was that it was snowing.

Una+ as long as we're on this subject, can you please elaborate on "revolving door crisis?" I have looked it up online, but am still confused with this term. Does it mean a lot of alters coming out, like rapid switching?