Archive for dissociative identity disorder
July 27, 2009 at 12:18 am · Filed under healing, My Stories, Personal Musings, Uncategorized, Understanding DID and tagged: alters, DID, dissociative identity disorder, healing, integration, multiplicity, Personal Musings, recovery
My writing has become sporadic. My LIFE is more chaotic. But for (ultimately) a good reason – I’ve gotten a job.
So why do I feel more unstable than ever?
This post does have a point – a snapshot of growth through the hardest external challenges my husband and I have ever faced.
<Yeah yeah, more of that “what doesn’t kill you” crap.>
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April 20, 2009 at 7:13 pm · Filed under Mental Health, Therapy and Treatment, Understanding DID and tagged: diagnosis, DID, dissociative identity disorder, healing, Psychology, therapy, Therapy and Treatment
Elysium3000 left a comment elsewhere on the blog about her frustrations getting a diagnosis, therapist’s opinions/beliefs about dissociative disorders, and the fear of being outed. Since her fears are so common and I’ve written on some of this before, let’s try and work through these issues again. Since my feelings and subsequent research got a little long, I’m splitting this into a few posts.
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January 25, 2009 at 11:53 am · Filed under Information, multiple personality disorder, Surveys and Info and tagged: DID, dissociative identity disorder, MPD, multiple personality disorder
I tripped across a neat Google tool called “Trends.” It allows tracking of search phrases over time, and you can compare phrases as well. Here’s an illustrive example, “Chrstmas.”
Vertical bars are the start of each year. Kinda neat, eh? Whaddya see? Hmmm, massive peaks right around December 25th?
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December 18, 2008 at 7:21 pm · Filed under Information, Mental Health, My Stories, Therapy and Treatment and tagged: amnesia, DID, DID humor, dissociative identity disorder, integration, recovery, switching, therapy, triggers
After deciding to return to therapy, I interviewed two therapists. I’ve already reported on the my response to Bizarre Animal Lady in the surreal interview environment and the surreal interview itself. That “event” was easy to blog about – it was over and gone.
But I’ve delayed writing about the good interview because I didn’t want to jinx the relationship. But it is far enough along now that I am ready to share.
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November 26, 2008 at 9:21 am · Filed under Information, Mental Health, multiple personality disorder, Surveys and Info, Understanding DID and tagged: DID, dissociative identity disorder, MPD, multiple personality disorder, Understanding DID
Stereotypes of DID abound on the internet. Most copy info from the DSM 300.14, mention the stereotypical movies, and then make some sort of comment, assumption, or question that shows they tried to understand a little, but not enough.
I read about a woman with a bipolar child, IRCC. When “concerned people” make comments about her parenting, she hands them a card that answers basic questions. What is bipolar. How yelling at the child is the wrong thing. Explaining that her reaction to the child’s behavior is appropriate in this situation.
Can we do the same for DID?
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November 24, 2008 at 11:15 am · Filed under Comments, Goddess of Brilliance and Wonder, Understanding DID, Vent-Rant and tagged: dark humor, DID, dissociative identity disorder, humor, MPD, multiple personality disorder, Vent-Rant
Sweeeet, another article online with some interesting misconceptions about DID. Okay folks, ready for this one? We are characterized by “stealing money, or driving recklessly, or abusing some other person.”
Excelllllent. Shall we have another go at it?
I’m not even bothering with the flame-proof suit. My inferno will trump your inferno, oh wee little Clueless Ones.
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November 24, 2008 at 9:25 am · Filed under Mental Health, My Stories, Understanding DID and tagged: diagnosis, DID, dissociative identity disorder, MPD, multiple personality disorder, Psychology, Understanding DID
My parents, scared, took me to a therapist a few years after I was attacked as a teen – I had periods of sadness, complete numbness, intense joy and escape in music. And interspersed, periods of irrationality. I found out later I really scared my friends with my mental constructs. I had some sense that my thoughts and actions were very wrong but I was dragged bodily on a roller coaster with no sense of time or space. I didn’t even ponder where the compulsion and agitation came from – I was just there, on a mission to accomplish something I didn’t truly understand and was powerless to control.
The first therapist told my mother that she thought it might be schizophrenia. My mother tells me it drove her on a secret feverish hunt to learn all she could about the frightening disease.
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November 17, 2008 at 4:18 pm · Filed under Mental Health, multiple personality disorder, My Stories, Personal Musings, Therapy and Treatment, Understanding DID and tagged: alters, DID, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, MPD, multiple personality disorder, Psychology, self-worth, switching, Therapy and Treatment, triggers
Recently, I scheduled consultation interviews with two therapists, hoping one would be the “one.” Good news – I found her! Bad news, the other therapist has not a clue. You already know how that session started and ended – with the surreal therapy room and therapy menagerie. I promised to follow up about the consultation itself. This post is much less fun. It will piss you off.
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November 8, 2008 at 1:25 pm · Filed under Goddess of Brilliance and Wonder, My Stories, Personal Musings, Understanding DID and tagged: coping mechanisms, DID, dissociative identity disorder, humor, MPD, multiple personality disorder, self-worth, switching, Understanding DID
I am between jobs, which is a polite way of saying that my last company screwed me over by proposing an unexpectedly ridiculous contract that I was being pressured to accept within three days. <I’ll bend over on my own terms when it suits my ulterior motives. These were no longer My Terms. Thus, I was instantly somewhat less motivated to maintain the position.>
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Those with DID steal money and drive recklessly
November 24, 2008 at 11:15 am · Filed under Comments, Goddess of Brilliance and Wonder, Understanding DID, Vent-Rant and tagged: dark humor, DID, dissociative identity disorder, humor, MPD, multiple personality disorder, Vent-Rant
Sweeeet, another article online with some interesting misconceptions about DID. Okay folks, ready for this one? We are characterized by “stealing money, or driving recklessly, or abusing some other person.”
Excelllllent. Shall we have another go at it?
I’m not even bothering with the flame-proof suit. My inferno will trump your inferno, oh wee little Clueless Ones.
Read the rest of this entry »
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