What what what? Eunho went for the parking lot job consciously pretending to be Haeri so did she always intend…
It looked like what they wanted to portray was her pretending to be Haeri so her sister could live on in a way but it seems like after a while she developed amnesia and lived as two identities. However that is a misinformed representation of what DID actually is.
This was interesting to read. I wonder, would you say "Kill me, heal me" was more accurate and followed your understanding…
Thank you. Yeah I'd say Kill me, heal me was a better portrayal than this. While it is dramatized of course we can see that it stemmed from trauma, sometimes alters do not get along, sometimes they can be different ages and genders etc. There can be triggers positive or negative that can cause switching. Hopefully there can be another KDrama that does a better job and takes the portrayal of mental health, neurological and psychological disorders seriously.
KMHM was probably my first introduction into DID as well but also what helped me learn more about it was listening to people talk online about their personal experiences for over the years. Also my favourite singer has bipolar 1 and DID (only found out after I started stanning him).
Really I don't know why a better depiction wasn't done though. Because it didn't seem like they did thorough research or if they did research, they barely touched the tip of the iceberg and probably misunderstood a good bit of stuff. I understand taking a bit of liberties with fiction and what not but the way they did this is going to give people the wrong idea.
First off Shin Hye Sun is amazing with her portrayals of both EunHo and Hyeri.
And while this is 'fiction', I'm disappointed that proper research wasn't done into DID - what causes it, what it's about and at what age range a person will develop it. But that's not the actress's fault ofc.
1. DID can only develop due to repeated trauma, neglect, disorganized attachments or something that occurs in childhood and negatively impacts the child to a great extent (depends on the child) when they are under the age of 9 or 10, even as young as an infant. During this time, according to the structural dissociation theory, the child is still integrating different identity states. Trauma can cause those identity states to become distinctly their own with their own personalities, likes, dislikes and memories.
2. Alters are not personalities. They are not the main identity deciding to be a different person for a period of them (and then later forgetting about it). Alters will also have their own personalities. They have their own likes/dislikes, memories and lack of. Another term to bring up is 'fragments'. Fragments are identities that are less developed and may carry out a singular function.
3. Alters are not imaginary or made up beings. They are all part of what makes up the individual except they're functioning in a different way from someone who doesn't have DID or even any OSDD (Other Specified Dissociative Disorder) subtype.
4. If DID was being portrayed accurately then the psychiatrist saying that Hyeri is Eunho is all wrong. They're completely different. However later on we learn that EunHo started willingly acting like Hyeri until she forgot about it. Seriously, did anyone do their research at all.
5. Alters can have different roles and sometimes more than one - trauma holders, persecutors, protectors/guardians, introjects etc. The trauma holder obviously holds the memories. Protectors would protect the system and the host. Usually the core or main alter that usually takes on the role of the host is the one with the amnesia barriers. Now it seemed like EunHo as well as Hyeri both had amnesia. Which made me think that there was going to be another alter involved. I don't think they're going that route and it'll surprise me if they do. If the DID was being portrayed accurately, Hyeri would be an Introject as she is based off someone EunHo knows i.e. her younger sister. Since I also thought there would be another alter, I thought maybe there would be a gatekeeper that controls the switching between Eunho and Hyeri because switching is never always predictable and in a set routine like that.
6. Alters cannot die. They can go dormant or merge with another alter or even have their own alters themselves. Sometimes there are systems where alters have their own system as well.
7. A psychiatrist making out merging/fusing to be the end goal isn't the way to go. There are three ways systems can approach this. They can either decide on functional multiplicity where all exist as separate but they still work together. Or they can decide on integration where I believe memories are shared but there is no merging. Or they can decide on final fusion where they integrate and merge into one being. It would not happen overnight and would be a gradual process under the guidance of their psychiatrist. The important thing to note is that whatever choice the system makes that is up to them and all choices that I've mentioned here are valid. Also even if there is fusion, re-traumatization can cause alters to emerge again
8. Maybe they'll go this route or not, I don't know but the "power of love" cannot cure DID.
KMHM was probably my first introduction into DID as well but also what helped me learn more about it was listening to people talk online about their personal experiences for over the years. Also my favourite singer has bipolar 1 and DID (only found out after I started stanning him).
Really I don't know why a better depiction wasn't done though. Because it didn't seem like they did thorough research or if they did research, they barely touched the tip of the iceberg and probably misunderstood a good bit of stuff. I understand taking a bit of liberties with fiction and what not but the way they did this is going to give people the wrong idea.
And while this is 'fiction', I'm disappointed that proper research wasn't done into DID - what causes it, what it's about and at what age range a person will develop it. But that's not the actress's fault ofc.
1. DID can only develop due to repeated trauma, neglect, disorganized attachments or something that occurs in childhood and negatively impacts the child to a great extent (depends on the child) when they are under the age of 9 or 10, even as young as an infant. During this time, according to the structural dissociation theory, the child is still integrating different identity states. Trauma can cause those identity states to become distinctly their own with their own personalities, likes, dislikes and memories.
2. Alters are not personalities. They are not the main identity deciding to be a different person for a period of them (and then later forgetting about it). Alters will also have their own personalities. They have their own likes/dislikes, memories and lack of. Another term to bring up is 'fragments'. Fragments are identities that are less developed and may carry out a singular function.
3. Alters are not imaginary or made up beings. They are all part of what makes up the individual except they're functioning in a different way from someone who doesn't have DID or even any OSDD (Other Specified Dissociative Disorder) subtype.
4. If DID was being portrayed accurately then the psychiatrist saying that Hyeri is Eunho is all wrong. They're completely different. However later on we learn that EunHo started willingly acting like Hyeri until she forgot about it. Seriously, did anyone do their research at all.
5. Alters can have different roles and sometimes more than one - trauma holders, persecutors, protectors/guardians, introjects etc. The trauma holder obviously holds the memories. Protectors would protect the system and the host. Usually the core or main alter that usually takes on the role of the host is the one with the amnesia barriers. Now it seemed like EunHo as well as Hyeri both had amnesia. Which made me think that there was going to be another alter involved. I don't think they're going that route and it'll surprise me if they do. If the DID was being portrayed accurately, Hyeri would be an Introject as she is based off someone EunHo knows i.e. her younger sister. Since I also thought there would be another alter, I thought maybe there would be a gatekeeper that controls the switching between Eunho and Hyeri because switching is never always predictable and in a set routine like that.
6. Alters cannot die. They can go dormant or merge with another alter or even have their own alters themselves. Sometimes there are systems where alters have their own system as well.
7. A psychiatrist making out merging/fusing to be the end goal isn't the way to go. There are three ways systems can approach this. They can either decide on functional multiplicity where all exist as separate but they still work together. Or they can decide on integration where I believe memories are shared but there is no merging. Or they can decide on final fusion where they integrate and merge into one being. It would not happen overnight and would be a gradual process under the guidance of their psychiatrist. The important thing to note is that whatever choice the system makes that is up to them and all choices that I've mentioned here are valid. Also even if there is fusion, re-traumatization can cause alters to emerge again
8. Maybe they'll go this route or not, I don't know but the "power of love" cannot cure DID.