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Did you read the rest of the article? It was excellent for a tabloid.

The titles reel readers in. If people don’t know what alters are, remembering that the paper must be readable to those with a low as well as high intelligence, using simple words such as “characters” is a good head to catch attention - pretty much like your hard-hitting and aggressive sounding LISTEN UP in your title (see how that works?)

Once you read the article, it explains that the alters are far more than just characters.

Unfortunately - no one is going to print/discuss/show what we want. Everything anyone will ever do to do with spreading awareness won’t be 100% to their satisfaction.

In fact, if you have any better ideas, feel free to let us know.

Messages like this don’t help if all you’re going to say is “don’t bother spreading awareness in the media because it doesn’t help” - how else do you propose we get the word out there?

Please - feel free to start your own campaign and we will happily join. As far as I’m concerned, nothing we will ever do will make everyone happy - I’m more than willing to pass the “awareness-baton” to the next runner, because Jake may still be on board - but I am seriously fed up of this crap - doing the best you can do with the tools you have is never enough for some people is it?

nothing in this world is perfect and we certainly cant expect the media to be any different. they have to change some things to make people read it and so long as the main content isnt compromised then i think we can forgive a badly worded title here and there, especially when it draws in the attention of readers/watchers/listeners. sometimes it’s unfortunately necessary.

we have to start somewhere and so for the moment we have to put up with these things because otherwise the vast majority of people are never going to learn. no one will want to look at something that they dont understand or that doesnt sound interesting, so they have to consider that most people like gossip and weird sounding things - which is why we see the term “multiple personalities” in media rather than the name DID. if people dont have a clue what they’re reading from the title that’s meant to draw in attention then why would they want to carry on reading since they probably still wont understand?

we certainly weren’t pleased with the title, but in the media, it’s all about compromise.  they want to gain headlines and readers, we want to spread awareness - somewhere, there is a line that both ends meet at.

none of us liked the title at all.  but thats down to the editing and not the writers - the writers proof read things with us and we give a thumbs up or down - once we say ok, they do not know what the titles will say and they certainly arent up to us to decide

very much as LAM said - MPD is always used instead of DID, because unfortunately, we live in a society of morons that would rather cling to something gossipy rather than interesting - and that certainly isn’t our fault

let me just repeat that in simple terms - WE DID NOT SAY YES TO USING THE TERM “CHARACTERS” - WE DID NOT DECIDE ON THAT TERM OR HAVE ANY INPUT ON THE DECISION TO USE THAT WORD

surely - this middle-mark should be easily understood by others - we have a choice, risk a few mistakes here and there to get the word of the disorder out to millions of people, or say fuck all and stick to smaller blogs online

either way - not everyone will be happy with either decision that we or anyone else would make

we made a difficult choice - to turn down or accept media input - and as you said, your opinion is that we didnt make it “believable” enough because we had a shit title in print

i am repeating - WE HAD NO CHOICE IN THE TITLE OF THE ARTICLE - WE DID NOT AGREE OR HAVE INPUT TO THE TITLE OF THE ARTICLE

if you or anyone else ever decided to work with the media - youd honestly realise how difficult these “middle grounds” are to meet on with things being mostly on your end - put down too many rules and they wont work with you - dont do enough, and the paper could completely flip over your story

its a risk every time

im sure youll be very pleased to know that we will not be partaking in any more in the near future

as said - if you feel you can do a better job, please feel free - we will always support others attempting to raise genuine awareness in whatever way they can, because we accept that things may not always go 100% to plan

it’s a shame a minority of people dont have the same realisations as we do

Did you read the rest of the article? It was excellent for a tabloid.

The titles reel readers in. If people don’t know what alters are, remembering that the paper must be readable to those with a low as well as high intelligence, using simple words such as “characters” is a good head to catch attention - pretty much like your hard-hitting and aggressive sounding LISTEN UP in your title (see how that works?)

Once you read the article, it explains that the alters are far more than just characters.

Unfortunately - no one is going to print/discuss/show what we want. Everything anyone will ever do to do with spreading awareness won’t be 100% to their satisfaction.

In fact, if you have any better ideas, feel free to let us know.

Messages like this don’t help if all you’re going to say is “don’t bother spreading awareness in the media because it doesn’t help” - how else do you propose we get the word out there?

Please - feel free to start your own campaign and we will happily join. As far as I’m concerned, nothing we will ever do will make everyone happy - I’m more than willing to pass the “awareness-baton” to the next runner, because Jake may still be on board - but I am seriously fed up of this crap - doing the best you can do with the tools you have is never enough for some people is it?

nothing in this world is perfect and we certainly cant expect the media to be any different. they have to change some things to make people read it and so long as the main content isnt compromised then i think we can forgive a badly worded title here and there, especially when it draws in the attention of readers/watchers/listeners. sometimes it’s unfortunately necessary.

we have to start somewhere and so for the moment we have to put up with these things because otherwise the vast majority of people are never going to learn. no one will want to look at something that they dont understand or that doesnt sound interesting, so they have to consider that most people like gossip and weird sounding things - which is why we see the term “multiple personalities” in media rather than the name DID. if people dont have a clue what they’re reading from the title that’s meant to draw in attention then why would they want to carry on reading since they probably still wont understand?