Rayel, Antef, Myth, Alexxia, Fan, Scarlet and Little Artist. are the names of the seven personalities who live inside Lorea 35-year-old Mexican girl diagnosed with the Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and that through his channel, Long Soul Systemin which he accumulates more than 300,000 subscribers in Youtubetry to let the world know Mental illness.
DID is an unknown disorder for the population, despite affecting 2% of its totality and having had a strong presence in fiction, being the basis of the plot of stories such as The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Psychosis o Multiple.
The mental alteration that Lore suffers, as explained by the Mayo Clinic on its website, “represents a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, environments, actions and identity.” Those who suffer from it, usually as a result of a trauma experienced during childhood, “escape from reality in involuntary and unhealthy ways, coming to experience periods of amnesia or developing alternate identities“.
For example, in the movie ‘Multiple’, released in 2016, the character played by James McAvoy it has 23 personalities and behaves in an aggressive way, completely controlled by the identities that reside within it. A perspective of the disorder that caused great controversy due to its stigmatization of mental illness. So, the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation decided to release a statement discrediting the vision of this disorder as something dangerous that is shown in the film and criticizing that it was done “at the expense of a vulnerable population that struggles to be recognized and receive the effective treatment they deserve.
That is precisely the battle that Lore from ‘Long Soul System’ is waging, which in addition to giving visibility to the disorder through social networks, tries to destigmatize people who suffer from it and prevent them from living through the ordeal she went through until they discover what was happening to her. “With what I do, I hope that IDD can be diagnosed much earlier than it is currently done, because in my case it took a long time. I started going to therapy at age 6 and I’ve been going to a psychiatrist since I was 11, but I wasn’t diagnosed with the disorder until I was 28, which is too long. Many things could work if dissociation were detected much earlier,” he comments.