Healing From Feelings of Emptiness
You’re at home alone or sitting in the midst of a crowd of friends but still you feel a deep-seated lack of connection and profound feelings of emptiness. If you relate that sentence, this article is for you. We shall examine the painful emotions that often accompanies borderline personality...
Grief Is Not Straightforward for Those Who Have DID
Many who live with dissociative identity disorder understand grief. We were raised in its arms of it. Do we try to escape? This article will cover grief, what causes our grief, and how to help yourself to break free. Average Grief Usually when we think of grief...
Dissociative Identity Disorder Awareness Day
Every March 5th people who are in some way connected to dissociative identity disorder celebrate awareness day. As the title states, March 5th represents our desire as survivors and those who love them want to raise as much awareness as possible. Why DID Awareness Day? The reason...
How to Manage Stress Effectively
Too much stress in your life is a potentially major health concern that you need to ensure that you stay on top of. There are various ways of keeping on top of it, but proper stress management is the type of lifelong habit that can bring about so many...
Understanding Dissociation
One of the strangest and perhaps most harmful symptoms of dissociative identity disorder is dissociation. Possibly dissociation is strange because other people aren’t expecting to see it happen to you and harmful because you are not fully aware when you dissociate. This article will focus primarily on dissociation...
Are Some People Sexual Predators At Birth?
***TRIGGER WARNING *** Mentions sexual predation and victimization of children Have you ever wondered if people who are sexual predators were born that way? Were they made by their environment or by genetic changes to their brains? This article will explore these questions but do not think you...
Strategies for Clients and Therapists to Overcome the Freeze Response
Have you ever experienced yourself slipping into the freeze response? That feeling that you are too overwhelmed to move or speak when in therapy? This article will focus on strategies for you and your therapist to respond to and treat the freeze response. What is the Freeze Response? You...
Dissociative Amnesia and Dissociative Identity Disorder
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...
Structural Dissociation and Dissociative Identity Disorder
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...
Overcoming Learned Helplessness
.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...
Self-parenting and Dissociative Identity Disorder
Many who live with dissociative identity disorder fantasize about their birth parents showing up and loving them unconditionally. While we all know this isn’t possible, it leads to one conclusion: we must learn to parent ourselves. In this article, we shall explore self-parenting when you have DID. ...
Dealing with the Voices of Alters
As anyone who has dissociative identity disorder (DID) can tell you, one of the worst symptoms is hearing the voices of the other alters as they vie for attention. These voices can be overwhelming, leaving multiples shocked and dismayed. This article will focus on how hearing the voices...