Taking Responsibility for Your Emotions
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...
Severe Illness and Dissociative Identity Disorder
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...
Negative Self-judgment and Dissociative Identity Disorder
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...
What Is It Like to Get Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder?
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...
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. This article will explore memory dysfunction and why and how we forget. What is Dissociative Amnesia Dissociative amnesia is, like dissociative identity disorder,...
Learning to Live in Your Body After Childhood Trauma
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...
Strategies for Healing Dissociative Identity Disorder
There are approximately 1-7% of the world population (sometimes figured higher) who have dissociative identity disorder. However, most mental health professionals have either not taken the time to study DID or are trauma-informed. This article will cover strategies to heal in therapy for dissociative identity disorder. Also, this...
Learned Helplessness and Childhood Trauma
Learned helplessness is a term I had never experienced until recently. I had felt helpless and out of control of my life, but the words learned helplessness took me by surprise. In this article, we shall explore learned helplessness and what it means for survivors of childhood trauma....
Self-Blame
According to the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), 1 in 4 children living in the United States experience some type of maltreatment. Without a supportive adult to talk to, these children are doomed to grow into adults who blame themselves for what happened to them. This article...
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
People have days for everything anymore. However, I am in a wheelchair and have been for over twenty years, so the one that is near and dear to my heart is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. I hope that this article will not only raise awareness...
Dissociative Identity Disorder as a Developmental Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) has long baffled those in the mental health field. The controversy surrounding DID, and the stigma even cause some mental health professionals to disbelieve its existence. However, what if I told you that dissociative identity disorder isn’t a mental health concern at all? This...
The Ten Stages of Healing from Dissociative Identity Disorder
Healing from dissociative identity disorder (DID) is arduous at best and dangerous at worst. Healing takes time, effort, and an understanding of yourself like you’ve never known before because of therapy. I have gone through all the stages of healing from DID many times until now. I now have...