

What is your particular understanding of “dissociation”, as in the specific signs and symptoms you see in your friend?
No one serious disagrees about the literal existence of dissociative behaviors (i.e. “checking out” for reasons both physiological and psychological), but plenty of people disagree about the phenomenology + clinical nature of DID and related DSM constructs.




Yeah, that’s pretty textbook.
Outside of the usual semantic arguments about what constitutes a primary diagnosis, I can’t see a good reason why that would get so much pushback (sexism aside).