I’ve been gone a while from Internet land as I attempt to recover from a serious illness. One thing I noticed during my trial was that I didn’t spend a lot of time dissociating nor did I lose much time.   This article will focus on what it means...

Everyone experiences days where they feel out of sorts or unable to face the new day. However, because of complex trauma, survivors often feel out of touch with who they are and feel their lives are out of control and overwhelming.   This article shall explore the link between...

We all feel a sense of rejection of ourselves from time to time. We briefly see ourselves as imperfect and reject how we live in light of how we wish to be. That’s healthy.   However, often, people who live with the chaos of dissociative identity disorder (DID) use...

If you are like me, there are times when my emotions get out of control. We yell at our children or our significant other and feel lousy afterward.   When you have dissociative identity disorder, a common symptom is to either thrash out with your anger or push it...

You may have noticed that I haven’t written a piece for a while. I’ve been sick and haven’t had the energy to open my computer and write.   We just found out we have non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, a severe and potentially deadly disorder. It makes me feel...

If you live with dissociative identity disorder in your life, you are very aware of the problems you have with your memory. Conversations and appointments get forgotten, leaving many confused friends, colleagues, and loved ones.   Then, after we realize we have forgotten something important, we are embarrassed and...

Many who live with dissociative identity disorder day to day often find themselves bogged down in negative self-judgment. We may think of ourselves only in negative terms and put ourselves down every chance we get.   This article will focus on negative self-judgment and the stinking thinking that goes...

As you may have noticed, there are dozens of theories out there about dissociation and dissociative identity disorder. Obviously, since dissociation is part of DID, it is necessary to cover these theories the best we can.   For this article, we shall investigate structural dissociation theory and all its...

.As children, we were helpless to change our fate. We were abused and neglected so severely that our minds did a marvelous thing; it splintered into alters to share our burden. As adults, we often find ourselves in positions where the abuse continues, and we do not leave or...

As many of us who have DID know too well, finding a good therapist who will give the proper diagnosis is hard. We are often misdiagnosed with a myriad of different conditions, such as bipolar disorder, schizo-affective disorder, or borderline personality disorder.   This article will break down what...

If you live with dissociative identity disorder in your life, you are very aware of the problems you have with your memory.   This article will explore memory dysfunction and why and how we forget.   What is Dissociative Amnesia     Dissociative amnesia is, like dissociative identity disorder,...

One of the most interesting side effects of childhood trauma is that many of us feel we are separated from our bodies. We acknowledge we have a body but view it as an inconvenient necessity that we prefer to ignore.   In this piece, we will focus on learning...