Telling Your Family You Have Dissociative Identity Disorder
The dissociative identity disorder diagnosis is challenging for us who have it to bear. We long to tell someone we can trust about our problem, but what the public knows about DID is far overshadowed by what they do not. Most of us want to turn to our...
Self-Advocacy: Self-Care in Trying Times
Since September is suicide awareness month, learning about self-advocacy is the basis of all healing from complex trauma and defeating suicidal ideation in oneself and dealing with it in others. When you stand up for yourself and meet your needs, it is easier to meet life on life’s terms...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Many of us who live with a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder have faced the conundrum of trying to find adequate mental health care. In this article I’m going to discuss the hard choices people like myself must make to find any kind of care at all in our...