Key points

Fear-based training creates harm.

Young parts are often silenced.

“Fake DID” is a harmful concept.

Rigid models don’t match real healing.

As both a licensed psychologist and a person living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), I’ve navigated the mental health system from both sides of the therapy chair. And I’ve come to accept a difficult truth: Most traditional DID trainings are failing the very people they aim to help.

These trainings may be rooted in clinical curiosity or theoretical rigor, but they are often lacking in one essential ingredient— humanity . What’s being passed off as education is, too often, training therapists to fear , misinterpret, or suppress the very parts of us that need connection and compassion.

We aren’t just clients with comple

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