How Do Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect You Today?
The answer will leave you speechless. Adults who experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), aka traumatic experiences as children, still pay for what happened to them years, even decades later. But what are adverse childhood experiences? And how do they affect you today? This article shall attempt to explain...
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
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...
Trauma and Dissociative Identity Disorder
Healing from dissociative identity disorder requires understanding what it is and how one forms it, and many other aspects of the disorder. Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is believed to be caused by trauma. This article will explore the relationship between trauma and DID. What is Trauma? Trauma is...
A Fun Page to Break Up the Stress
My posts have been pretty serious for a while, so I decided to pay a funny tribute to dogs in this one. Enjoy!...
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Positive Childhood Experiences: Can One Mitigate the Effects of the Other?
Childhood should be a carefree time full of learning and joy. However, many children aren’t that lucky and grow up in homes that are dysfunctional and abusive. These encounters are known as adverse childhood experiences and change the future of the child forever. One question that burns in the...
Dealing with Alters of Differing Demographics
Most people who live with dissociative identity disorder (DID) have more than two alternate selves. Alters can range from infancy to older people depending on the memories they harbor from the trauma experienced in the multiple’s past. What happens when the alters in a DID system have different sexes,...
Building Communication Between and Among Dissociated Alters
Learning to communicate among and with alters within a DID system is one of the most important lessons in healing. It is vital that one learn to hear and understand what is being held and hidden by alters in a system so we can open a dialogue about what...