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Continue reading →: Disclosures
Disclosures are a difficult topic, telling someone you have DID comes with a number of considerations from your relationship with them, their beliefs about mental health and how much you want them to know about you. While sometimes you might want to tell the world, it may not always be…
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Continue reading →: The Awakening Phase
One of the amazing things about DID is that it is developed not only to keep abuse hidden from the outside world, but from the person who is living with it. This means that even though DID is acquired in early childhood, most people do not realize they have it…
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Continue reading →: Balancing Acts
So I’m struggling. One of the hardest parts I’m discovering about my brain is that there’s limited energy capacity and it’s not just a case of “do I have energy for this one things I have to do”, but “do I have the energy/time for all the things all of…
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Continue reading →: Does he know I’m not here?
I’m in a choir and every year we hold placements. A supposedly non-intimidating way to determine if each singer is still in the best voice-part for them (alto, soprano, tenor, base etc). Every year I’m terrified of placements, I seem to be convinced that even though I auditioned and was…
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Continue reading →: Diagnostics
When you suspect you may have a dissociative disorder there are a number of ways you can determine what might be going on. For me, I started experiencing a number of terrifying symptoms and I took them to my therapist who suggested I fill out something called a Dissociative Experiences…