I actually have DID. After moonknight came out, I've had several people reach out and apologised for ever having called me crazy.

I realized Jake was in the bathroom mirror scene too. He just stares and doesn't say anything.

what steven and marc went through wasnt fusion because they are still seperate, just very co-operative now. learning how to work together and no longer fight eachother, learning how to trust eachother completely. sort of like learning how to work together and take turns on a project... except, its everyday life, not a project.

I have ptsd from childhood abuse and this show really spoke to me and my parts. In episode 6 when Marc was showing love to Steven, oh man that really got me.

The scene when Wendy was beating Marc and calling him disgusting hit me harder than anything else from the MCU. This show was wonderful from the first episode to the last and it portrayed DID better then even long term heroes like Hulk. The final episode did have a little issues with the “Marvel 3rd act” syndrome but overall truly a great show 9/10.

*Moon Knight and WandaVision are such good representations of trauma and what it can do to a person later in life, and I am so in love with how well each show was executed*

After mental health being so controversially depicted in superhero media, imagine such a rare, less talked about, and apparently INCREDIBLY misunderstood disorder being nailed this well

For me the mythological aspects of the show in contrast helped to demystify DiD. It played against the narrative of Marc/Steven's personal arcs by grounding it, where in other stories mental health struggles are glamorized or made overdramatic, and even though it didn't always work for me on a technical storytelling level, I appreciated the juxtaposition for making mental health the priority of the show over the fantastical superhero aspects.

"Asylum" might just be up there with the greats of Marvel TV content like Daredevil's first and third seasons and Legion. This show actually has legitimately well done exploration of topics such as childhood abuse and sustained trauma that I wasn't expecting to be as prevalent to the extent it was

I have a friend with DID and while this show was a fantasy take on the condition, like the Accountant was for the autism spectrum, like that movie, it at least encourages compassion and understanding. I liked that the show didn't treat integration or suppression of alters as the only desirable solution. My friend absolutely does not want to integrate.

integration or "fusion" is not always the goal, the safest option, or even possible for a lot of systems.

As a person with DID I really love Moon knight. I relate to his trauma a lot and not watching to dissociate sometimes. And how much Steven and Marc hates letting the other take over. And when they join together but not fully fuse? That’s so good.

It's kinda sad Bruce Banner/The Hulk kinda got shafted with their DID subplot in the MCU. I remember Oscar Isaac mentioning that outside of the obvious Midnight Suns potential crossover with Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and others, he would love to crossover and do things together with Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner/The Hulk, because of both Bruce and Marc having DID and the potential chemistry between them. I'm still a little salty that Bruce and Hulk's emotional journey basically occurred off-screen before Endgame. The MCU never really addressed Bruce's backstory, or incorporate any of his comic counterpart's plot points with childhood abuse and development of DID. The gamma radiation simply gave Bruce's other identities a way to physically transform Bruce's body when taking over, not the source of his DID.

my mother told me quite a few times i was "a sin of her marriage". mainly when i was in middle school. she would push me up against the wall whenever i was "late" from walking home, and accuse me of doing drugs as she checked my pupils. ... i get that parents lash out and take it out on their kids. i get parents are overwhelmed by their partners, the pressures of their own lives, and the trauma and pain of their own lives. but it just never ended. and getting beat and worse by my dad right in front of her didnt help. and, you know what the crazy thing is? i was more upset they wrapped empty boxes under the christmas tree and invited all the neighbors for a party. when i tried to tell adults, they would tell its just "cultural differences". and then school sucked too. i never had friends. not saying life has to be great... but you know what? i really never appreciated being alive. ... this comment is going to get reported, isnt it?

If only more movies with characters that have mental illness did half the job Moon Knight did a lot of the stigma we face wouldn't exist. Autism/ADHD/etc not DID, still proud of the representation.

" Are u in love with my wife ? " that was the funniest question i have ever heard 🤣🤣

This is definitely my fave marvel show. I'm a covert system so I relate to Marc/Steven a lot. I was so happy to see them learn to function together instead of fusing.

Hm. I really like Moon Knight as a character and if the show really has as good a representation of D.I.D as this video would suggest, I’ll have to watch it. As someone who is in a system, I’ll probably need some tissues though 🙂

Marc and Steven don't fuse in the show, ad fusion isn't always the answer. Some alters and systems can't fuse, but some can. It isn't a "cure all".

Not that you really said this, but I just wanted to let everyone know that forced integration isn't usually seen as the default solution the way it used to be. There is no "fixing," or completely blending all "parts of the whole" back together. That's an over simplification & just not how it works.

The Dr. Harrow quote at the very beginning is such a raw and disconcerting question, but it makes sense to ask it in the show. If an alter suddenly discovered they exist in a system like Steven did, of course they’d be curious about the system’s origins. This show isn’t afraid to ask tough questions.

I just loved how they portrayed Marc’s DID with the utmost sensitivity. Oscar Isaac killed the role of the tough, self-hating Marc Spector and his alter Steven Grant, a shy man whose alter hid the truth about their mother from him because he wants his alter to have more than he was ever given.

i do agree, it had its weak moments (or even episodes) but that didn't stop me from falling in love with ALL of the show

I'm overt DID and I don't tell people this because I want to be normal. I really hate legitimizing myself with the language of "system" or "alters". This show fucked me up, I was extremely uncomfortable. I really enjoyed the show though.

I’m so glad this show exists to raise awareness for mental disorders

If you're interested in hearing thoughts on on the show from people who are actually affected by DID, braiDIDbunch has a series on it that you should check out.

this show resonated w/ me so much. some of the stuff marc and steven experience are severely reminiscent of the stuff i experience. so about a few weeks ago, after episode 5 came out, i was very much like "haha ok fuck maybe i need help". while in fact, i do not have DID, i do however fall somewhere in this spectrum (4:21). i am in the process of being diagnosed, which is absolutely insane for me (in a positive way).

I knew what I was getting into with this, being a fan of the source material and all. But the way they portrayed MK's illness felt very respectful and was really relateable to me. While I dont have any superpowers, I do have multiple mental disorders including DID and schizophrenia with visual and auditory hallucination. And to me the scene where steve is in the bathroom talking to marc in the mirror really fucked me up. I live in a house where I can cover up almost every reflective surface in case I see things. Needless to say, loved the show. Hated that scene, but not due to the screenwriter's fault

I love how Moon Knight represents people with Disorders, dealing with suppressed traumas.

Here's my attempt as someone who used to have DID to clear up what some of you are possibly wondering, which is "why are there folks in the comments arguing about the word integration" So, let's take a step back from whether this video and the show portrayed integration well. And to be clear, I haven't seen the show. I'm not disagreeing with those bits. I also think you did a fantastic job, and that this show does a fantastic job portraying DID (from the bits of it I've seen when my roommate has it on in the background and the general reaction of both folks who have/had DID who have watched it and folks who have never dealt with DID and gained a great empathy by watching it. That being said, the part about integration is a bit off, but don't beat yourself up over that because DID can be extremely confusing to folks who haven't personally dealt with DID watching people talk about DID. Yes, the treatment for DID is integration. That's true. But what integration /is/, varies. Although plurality is a thing (see the website morethanone), DID is a specific kind of plurality and has distinguishing characteristics that make it extremely hard to deal with. And it does have to be dealt with because ultimately it is a reaction to trauma and while it may help in the moment, once someone is out of that trauma it becomes maladaptive. For some people, integration in the sense of "we all become one person" is the desired goal, and it is the best thing for them, and it helps. But the problem with integration as a "one size fits all approach" (which is how it has been used historically), is that /plurality isn't the problem, disassociation is/. And when it comes to therapists and psychs administering treatment, sadly you do sometimes see "I'm cured" become "oh, I'm back in the doctor's office 15 years later because I learned to hide plurality but not actually stop disassociating". It's a bit hard because the disorder was originally called Multiple Personality Disorder, but I think the new naming really says it all. The problem is disassociation, not plurality. And so, while for some folks integrating into one person is what solves that, for others it is existing in a state where disassociation is no longer the go to coping mechanism, where folks take responsibility for what they do and for their own emotions and don't offload them onto other alters or hide information. /That/ can be integration as well, and for some people, becoming a finely tuned collection of individuals who work well together is better for them than becoming a single person. As I said at the start both you and Moon Knight did an incredible job talking about this here, but I wouldn't feel right if I didn't leave my two cents in the comments.

How can he not get best actor at the Emmys. Who else did this intensive of a role and nail it. And who else could play moonknight better then him.

I'm not sure I understand the Covert vs Overt breakdown you chose for the montage. Doesn't make much sense, and it's actually a simple concept. Overt systems are the systems you see on TV, where an outsider can easily tell us apart from each other, be through accent, posture, etc. Covert systems pretend to be the same person, we construct a persona of what we expect people to see of us and hide behind it, whether actively or subconsciously, and people can only tell who we are if they know us well. Also, Fusion is not Integration. Integration is a medical term used to describe the way DID is medically treated, it used to be by forcing the alters to fuse decades ago, but they realized that didn't always work and sometimes systems stopped seeking treatment because of it, and they started focusing on comunication between alters and memory sharing instead. Because typically, if alters in a system can fully communicate with each other and share memories, they can work together, and if fusion is the option for that system they will naturally fuse, and if it's not, they will live a better life with each other.

it has been nothing short of amazing following your channel alongside Disney+ content

8:22 same actor, FOUR characters. I personally count Khonshu-posesssed Marc in the chamber of the gods and Jake as new characters. Ish.

8:40 I didn’t mind the exposition because I, like most white people, know little about Egyptian gods. If the show hadn’t taken a break from the DID stuff to explain that, I’d’ve been completely lost. I did better keeping track of the plot than my mom, both bc I think too much about movies and I’m used to the wacky complicated nature of comic book arcs. But MK is complex in a different way. I like the exposition, but I appreciate that you don’t. That’s a common sentiment. Plus, you can only handle so much heartbreak at once. We spend two eps feeling sorry for Steven, then two with him and Marc on a fun adventure. Then they die and we get a big ugly dump of childhood trauma exposition, and the finale sends us off with some feel-good cooperation between altars, the Scarlet Scarab, and a clean comeuppance for the bad guy.

As an integrated personality, I'd akin it to finally sitting in the same boat and deciding to go the journey together instead of doing senseless boat races all the damn time. The crew is still there, I hear them chime in, but I don't *have* to act on it or even show it anymore. They rarely front, most of the times more as a... Celebration of them doing well? They all have "jobs" internally, so if they do well on their mental tasks, they get rewarded. But I still couldn't imagine not having my crew. They're my boys. We took care of each other. - So watching Moon Knight was really interesting and cathartic at the same time. (For me and the whole crew I might add) I think something as "outlandish" as DID / OSDD is really hard to grasp in how it REALLY feels, how day-to-day life really works then, and understanding that it goes through so many phases in life can be quite challenging. All the more praiseworthy is Moon Knight therefore, having such a stellar approach. I dunno if everyone with DID / OSDD is like this, but when I hear that some kind of media will tackle that subject, I instinctively groan and roll my eyes, but I still give it a fair shake. Never been more glad to have done that than with Moon Knight. :) Brilliant, empowering, but also showing the gritty reality. I never had amnesia during switches, so even I was shown a new perspective! I was thrown off too by the start of the show haha (I actually have OSDD, not DID, meaning DID minus amnesia)

I think this was great choice in how you presented this, you do wonderful work and I am proud of you

This is masterfully made -- thank you for doing it.

I always look forward to your videos. Loved your guests.

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain DID in the context of this show. A lot of other Marvel content creators don't seem to understand DID, so thank you for using experts to explain it.

Really well done and informative! Thanks to all the people that guest starred!

Implicitly Pretentious I think this is most favorite breakdown of a series, since it covers your education your research, this show is basically your subject am I right. One day you'll have Phd in Trauma😀. You're getting closer to 100 thousand subs my guy, been there since 18k.

Hey, I like this a lot! I actually never knew about overt and covert! This was really informative and I appreciate sourcing from various people!

This video was fire bro 🔥

Legit the perfect series to make a Trauma video on

I loved this show, great stuff!

The edit part that showed the representative pieces of Mark's DID was so beautiful it almost made me cry.

Your review captures my feelings about the show exactly.

As someone with diagnosed DID, Moon Knight is one of the most accurate examples of representation (not minding the fantasy elements). I feel like the fantasy elements make DID seem less otherworldly as some people think, in comparison.

Since some DID systems are pissed at this, are there any creators with DID that also have made videos (if you havnt) that react to, or portray the show differently or better?

The same question from childhood echoed in my mind when watching Moon Knight, as scenes of the mother's abuse mirrored what my stepmother had done to me, and it was always "Why isn't Dad doing anything" Even as an adult, I don't have a complete answer, and it hurts my relationship with my father when I remember it. And in the show I felt a lot of anger at the Father character for his unwillingness to step in for his son, just as I feel anger at my Dad. In both cases, I think they were afraid to disrupt their family, while trying to be supportive of their partner, but in both cases I nonetheless feel the failure to properly protect their son. I just wish Dad would've blocked her path, just once.

This my favorite video of yours.

I loved the Indian Jones middle bit! Episode 4 and 5 are my favorite episodes! 6 is probably my least favorite, but I still loved it! I will agree though, I want so much more character drama than exposition.

Really like this one! Good collab 😃

You guess!!? It’s awesome! And yes my man Oscar Isaac WAS the best part. And ep 1 and 5, were best. I think those were the ones written first (in interview OI said he was given those eps), so makes sense they were strongest.

You should do the umbrella Academy and family dysfunction

We've not been able to watch the show yet. We tried. We got through the first episode and bawled our eyes out. Seeing how horrible Marc was to Steven was deeply emotionally triggering, it broke our heart. And the association of DID again with extreme violence and murder was deeply upsetting to come from Marvel, which is a franchise we've loved dearly since the start of the MCU. It felt like a trusted friend stabbed us in the back with regard to representation. We've had people suggest to try watching more. We might try, but while reviews show that it might be decently accurate to the experience of DID, it also seems very triggering for us.

we're a questioning system. moon knight is so validating to watch. our trauma that we struggle to believe is or was 'bad enough' is very similar to moon knight's. we were blamed as a child for our mother's miscarriage and were hit and pinned to the floor during flashbacks to when we witness domestic violence. i love this show so much

I hope there's a Moon Knight season 2 in the future man

I expected a pretentious lecture about DID and representation, not an amazing editor flexing their skills.

NGL, ever since the skateboarding TikTok, "Dreams" as a song climbed to legend status for me. Nice to see it pop up every now and then.

this video is really solid, I really appreciate this formate for this particular show. and while I don't get, at all really, why do you dislike ep3 this much but okay dude you do you I guess 😅like honestly I don't know how could they do that bit any better but that's just me Ig. and like credit where credit is due, I think the Egyptian team did great portraying the Egypt-based portion of this show, which is kinda inventable considering one of the characters is an ancient Egyptian god and all. so yeah that... but okay I guess all shows need to be only dramas now ig. and all that notwithstanding even, I think this show is a solid piece of media. anyways, I liked your review, as always.

wow amazing take

I actually really like the show. Episode 5 is the best of it.

This video is so good 🥰🥰🥰

I'm surprised by the amount of people in the comments saying they are or know someone with DID. Either there are more people with it than I thought or people are liars.

As a singlet and futur social worker, I try to broaden my horizons and get informations on mental issues (that tend to be misunderstood in the mainstream) so I can be more helpful one day. It was a really interesting show. Also hard to watch at some moments.

I have DID and this show actually made me like my DID more

Hey man love the video but of you use Vegas to edit you might want to add a cookie cover that helps cover some of the black bars for videos that have effects on them, just a bit distracting having the black bars constantly changing in shade and colour

Thanks for the vid. Integration is only one form of therapy though and there are others that encourage the person with DID to live more harmoniously with their alters.

I have DID and work in a comic shop and I've educated people on what isn't appropriate to say anymore regarding moon knight and I feel like I've changed people's mindsets in that point of their lives

One of these for the hulk would be amazing since he has been shown to have did with his alters like hulk,devil,hulk ,the new titan ,Joe fixit and the green scar

Thanks for the video! All hail the Algorithm

Can we all agree that the mother was a literal piece of shit for putting that weight and trauma on their child. As an adult, you should be able to evaluate, assess and see the situation for what it truly is instead of hiding and blaming others for what happened. Like when she said, "You made me do this," no, you have complete freedom and responsibility for your actions. I sense that was just her guilty conscious projecting. Maybe feeling that she could've done something. I know it's just a show, but that hit close to home. I have experiences with asshole parents who refuse to acknowledge that just because you birth someone doesn't mean it absolves you from wrongdoing.

Trauma!!!

IP and trauma, a youtuber and a commonly discussed theme.

I'd love to see you react to Mr. Robot. I don't want to spoil it too much but there are some shocking similarities to the point where Moon Knight feels like a more accessible version of Mr. Robot.

I think DID was presented really well in this show, though I can’t speak for everyone because I don’t personally have DID. However the thing that Gets a little foggy with me is when it stops being DID and is just part of the “superhero” stuff lol. Like when they talk to eachother through mirrors I think is a really cool idea though I’m not sure if anyone in real life has had that experience

hi i was just watching another video essay on moon nkight. how did you know

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a living hell.

IT HAS BEGAN!!!!!

*Trauma*

Could a new personality take over and the original become dominant and maybe dissolve

"aS a PerSon WitH mEntAl IlLneSs"

Why does the hippo avatar have golden ibis wings

So, a bunch of people suffering DID vs a work of fiction that maybe got their writing material from a handful of research papers and testimonies. Where is the line between what's real and what's not?

The potential of Marvel ... Man just a little more seriousness and damn

I got fucken confused on the real plot of the show/movie (forgot what it is) once they had the doctor scenes

This show was basically like Loki. Structurally it was very similar. You can map each episode of one onto another. And ofcourse Loki dealing with Lokis' is similar to Steven and Marc coming to terms with one another. And finally season 2 will explain wtf is actually going on with the higher puppet masters.

tschau

Could it be…. Is it Trauma?

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Howdy Implicity Pretentious! Thanks for the vid! but i think you got the links mixed up. Osmosis's vid: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jqxirciAyauZd40.html ... when i clicked, it kept bringing me to MultiplicityandMe.

Yea I completely zoned out during episodes 3 and 4. I almost put down the series halfway through episode 4 but came back to it later that night just 'cause I had nothing else to really do that day, and I'm *so* glad I did 'cause of that little teaser for ep 5 at the end that we all agree was the real meat of this show!

Yesterday I almost involuntarily commited suicide and now YT gave me this. I don't know what's real anymore?

The voice effect is on for way too long.

T-t-t-t-t-traumaaaaaa

lmao at these comments.

Thats a no from me.

Wow, Like, WOW ¿YOU ARE UNIRONICALLY DEFENDING SUCH AN ANTI-SEMITIC & LIE-SPREADING DISASTER OF A SHOW That even its showrunner hated? That's an even LOWER point, even for you