If you are in therapy getting help healing from childhood trauma, you have experienced crisis and struggling. Healing from dissociative identity disorder is difficult at best and traumatizing at worst.   This article shall examine the four stages of going from crisis to thriving as adapted from the work...

Healing from dissociative identity disorder (DID) often is a long and arduous journey. For some, it takes many years in therapy to move through the stages of healing.   This article will concentrate on the three stages of healing and how they relate to the lives of those who...

If there is one thing people with DID know, it is rejection. Indeed, rejection is at the heart of why we formed dissociative identity disorder. We desperately needed an adult to love and accept us, but instead, we were treated with anger and used as toys for their pleasure....

Addictions are becoming one of the leading causes of death in the United States, claiming 100,306 lives from April 2020 to April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the same period one year before (CDC).   Loving those who are addicted may be the only answer to saving countless...

Humans are social animals; we depend on socialization to keep us in touch with ourselves and others. In today’s world, we have become more connected via technology, but we have lost the ability to have a deep conversation and really connect with someone else.   Conditions such as dissociative...

Alters are often unruly and cause some of those who have dissociative identity disorder (DID) problems. For instance, a very young alter (little) may want to drive the car or a teen alter may want to drive up the credit card.   How do you handle such problems? You...

People who have dissociative identity disorder (DID) live with a lot of problems that people without the disorder do not understand. Isolation, somatic pain, dealing with alters, and perhaps the best well-known symptoms, switching.   This article will probe the benefits, and pain of having DID, especially focusing on...

So far, in this series, we have discussed narcissistic and childhood abuse and how codependency can become a problem for survivors. However, physical and emotional abuse is also rampant in our society and tearing the future lives of our children apart.   According to the Centers for Disease Control...

Codependency causes people to feed off each other’s emotions and to lose their ability to care for themselves. Codependency is a cruel dance where one person needs the other who needs to be needed. Thus, you end up with one adult being the giver and the other the taker....

Many of us have heard of codependency and narcissism. Codependency is when two people are locked in a life where they feed off on another, causing mental anguish. Narcissism is when one of the pair is self-centered, arrogant, and lacks empathy for their partner.   In this article, we...

There is a lot of talk today about finding yourself and being true to yourself.   But what if you have dissociative identity disorder and have spent your entire life hating who you are? What then? How on earth do you change the attitude that you hold stating you...

I am going to my brothers for Christmas and wanted to post something interesting to my site before I go. This piece has been published before here on Learnaboutdid.com, but I thought it worthy of a reprint. You all try to have a good holiday. Remember, you are not...