RE: How can Christians not admit Christianity is all a pile of garbage when ...?
February 12, 2012 at 9:04 pm
(February 12, 2012 at 7:09 pm)Abracadabra Wrote: Statistics show the rate of dissociative identity disorder is .01% to 1% of the general population. Still, more than 1/3 of people say they feel as if they're watching themselves in a movie at times, and 7% percent of the population may have undiagnosed dissociative disorder.
(Wow! 33% of people feel as if they are watching themselves in a movie?)
That's pretty amazing. It's almost hard to claim that it's a 'disorder' if so many people are doing it.
The vast majority of the 1/3 of people who "feel as though they are watching themselves in a movie at times" (emphasis added) don't meet the clinical criteria for DID. It's considered normal for people to exhibit dissociative symptoms at times (the same applies for symptoms of other disorders as well). If you don't meet the diagnostic criteria, you don't get the diagnosis. Absent other clinically significant indicators, those 1/3 do not meet the criteria.
I'd go so far as to guess that the vast majority of people do at times exhibit symptoms of some disorder or another, without meeting clinical criteria (and in most cases, not even coming close). This doesn't mean that people who do meet the criteria aren't disordered.
