Abandonment
Most people who live with dissociative identity disorder have known abandonment. Abandonment for children is when the child is experiencing mental anguish, but their caregivers are not attuned and ignore their silent cries for help. This article will tackle abandonment and hopefully, after reading it you will understand and...
Hope in the Face of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
June was PTSD Awareness Month This series in June has focused on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how it affects those who live with its symptoms. PTSD is, as we have seen, a life-altering disorder that changes the direction of many people’s lives. In this article, we shall focus...
Help for Hospitalized Multiples
A friend of mine, MJ Schier, recently had the experience of being hospitalized for a medical condition. Before she went, she made up a file of information to share with her doctors and caregivers while she was in the hospital recovering. She asked me to share this with you....
Experiencing Co-Occurring Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
In previous posts in this series, we have discussed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as though it occurs alone. Unfortunately, thinking that PTSD acts alone would be incorrect. Many other diagnoses that a person with PTSD can have include complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). This piece will explore what happens...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Brain
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a life-altering condition that, according to the National Center for PTSD, affects approximately 8 out of every 100 people at some point in their lives. This article will uncover how, like complex post-traumatic stress disorder, the trauma that causes PTSD changes brain structures and how...
Loss
What do you feel? This post is about me baring my soul to my readers who have dissociative identity disorder (DID). The piece is full of heartfelt emotions that can be a bit raw but are real nonetheless. Everyone experiences loss. People and jobs come and go, people...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become well-known among the public today. However, many do not understand that anyone can form PTSD and ignore the symptoms putting themselves at risk for health and emotional problems. June is post-traumatic stress disorder awareness month, so it seemed an excellent opportunity to...
Trauma
What is it and how is it related to DID We’ve all heard the words trauma and traumatized used in pop culture plus newspapers and journals, but what is it? What makes trauma the heart of so many mental health diagnoses, and how can we combat it? Dissociative identity...
Books
Writing has always been a passion of mine but until I began this blog site I was never very successful. However, deep down where it counted, I believed I could write and be successful. Not only do I ghostwrite and write books for others, I also have authored several...
Maladaptive Daydreaming and Dissociative Identity Disorder
Daydreaming is a typical stream of consciousness that detaches humans from current tasks when their attention drifts in a personal direction. A large study found that their participants reported on certain days under the right amount of stress, they daydream an average of 47% of their waking hours. While...