#GetSplitOffNetflix confuses me. People are upset because of it's portrayal of a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID). They seem to be upset because it shows the darker side of the disorder which they feel is harmful to the perception of real people with DID

I've done research on DID and it is caused by traumatic experiences(usually child abuse)and they develop at least one additional personality. I also read a description of the movie. He has 24 personalities. This seems unlikely to happen in real life, I doubt anyone has that many.

But the more personalities someone has the more unpredictable they become. It is reasonable to believe that if someone developed that many personalities at least one would have questionable morals.

I love psychology and though I'm not as interested in abnormal psychology as I am in normal psychology I respect people who like to explore that area of psychology and I will defend people's right to do so. It is clear that the movie is looking at the worst case scenario.

Look at the statistics for the disease. It is believed that the disorder only affects 1.5% of the population, which is still a large number(113,910,000). Very few of them are extreme enough enough to be hospitalized.

Approximately 3% of hospitalized mental patients have DID. There are 40,942 people in mental hospitals meaning that 1228 have DID. That is 0.1% of the people who have DID. One more thing. The character was male, and DID is 6 times less common in woman than me.

6 out of 7 is 86%(rounded up) so 14% of 1228 patients are male, that is 172. In addition to that only 3% - 5% of people with serious mental illness are violent, so that means that only 2 - 4 men with DID are likely to be violent.