Tag: #dissociatieidentitydisorder

I’ve often asked myself, “How can I overcome my trauma?” and “How can I heal with all the baggage I carry?” If you have been asking these questions about yourself, read this article for some hope and advise. What is Trauma? Trauma is feeling emotionally distressed by an event...

Therapy isn’t easy. You may find that statement to be true from your own experiences working with a therapist. Most people who have dissociative identity disorder (DID) understand that therapy is both beautiful yet at the same time dangerous. There are many forms of psychotherapy, however, this article will...

All too often people diagnosed with a dissociative disorder, especially dissociative identity disorder (DID), face obstacles from clinicians. These barriers include mental health professionals who do not believe that DID exists or if it does it is extremely rare.   This article will examine topics on commonly asked questions...

  This information and much more is found in my book THE CORNERSTONE OF HEALING available at Amazon.com.   One may wonder how healing happens when recovering from DID. Like with the stages of grieving, the stages of healing from DID are crucial parts of recovering from the trauma...

There are many methods clinicians can use to treat dissociative identity disorder.  Sadly, many clinicians do not believe that DID is real treating the symptoms with drugs. Instead of looking into the DSM to see the criteria for DID and that it is accepted as a real diagnosis by...

Dissociative identity disorder is caused by severe and repetitive trauma in early childhood abuse, including sexual, physical, emotional, and verbal plus neglect or all of the above.   One of the unfortunate consequences of childhood trauma is that children who are traumatized will often internalize the messages given to...

Have you ever had that day where you feel disconnected and pulled too many directions at once? Under those circumstances, it is difficult to concentrate, and you may feel overwhelmed, anxious, and depressed.   This article will tackle a subject we have written about before mindfulness. Mindfulness is a...

In this world we inhabit, there are stresses and pain that can cloud our ability to be content. Instead, we find ourselves caught in a repeating pattern of hope and disillusionment.   This article will focus on contentment, what it is, and how to achieve it.   What is...

Every year, survivors face a world gone mad. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s bring with them countless traditions, and people buy things they cannot afford as gifts.   When you are a survivor of severe and repeated childhood abuse, you often equate the holidays with sour memories of what...

We’ve all been there. We wake up some mornings with a bad attitude toward life. We feel the world is against us and wish people would treat us better. For most people, that sucky attitude passes as we get on with our lives.   However, what is it like...