Attachment Wounds Before Birth and Beyond
Child maltreatment leaves lasting scars that hamper a person’s whole life. Did you know that trauma is experienced for some unlucky babies In Utero? This article will outline what can happen to a child before birth that highly influences their entire life. Stress in the Womb All babies experience...
Overcoming Trauma from Childhood
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...
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...
Trauma and Trauma Goals
The word trauma has become a buzzword in today’s culture, with many choosing to use it to describe everything from a mildly bad experience with a possible significant other to a hung nail. Trauma describes life-altering events, and this article will discover with you what trauma is and...
Resilience, Trauma, and Stress
Most people living with dissociative identity disorder (DID) also suffer from complex post-traumatic stress disorder. That is why I have found this article to apply to this blog. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is a condition that causes life-altering problems for those who experience it. The symptoms of...
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...
The Twin Destroyers of Healing: Shame and Self-Hatred
Healing from a childhood so full of trauma that it causes dissociative identity disorder (DID) is incredibly difficult and the road is hard and long. The two greatest destroyers of the healing process that poison our minds and keep us from progressing as we should are shame and self-hatred....
Becoming Stuck in the Trauma of the Past
There are many roadblocks to healing from dissociative identity disorder (DID). There is finding an experienced therapist, finding the funds to pay them, and dealing with the chaos that comes with beginning treatment. However, one roadblock stands out more than all the rest and it can occur at any...
Normal Vs. Abnormal Dissociation
One might think that dissociation is an abnormal condition that only happens to people who have lived experience with childhood trauma. They would be wrong. Dissociation is a totally normal human reaction to boredom or becoming overstressed. What happens when dissociation becomes abnormal? What are the causes for the...
Poetry from the Heart
Sometimes a poem is written that grabs at the heart and won’t let go. Such is this poem that was written by a friend of mine, Jessica Baker. Jessica doesn’t have dissociative identity disorder but she does have a related problem borderline personality disorder. Both come from traumatic histories...
Who Am I If I’m Not a Traumatic, Dramatic Mess?
Author’s Note: I apologize ahead of time for the tone of this piece. I had to write it in the third person so that I could post it elsewhere on the internet. Learning to live with a severe mental health condition known as dissociative identity disorder is something most...