Archive for traumatic memories
November 1, 2008 at 4:30 pm · Filed under multiple personality disorder, My Stories, Reviews, Therapy and Treatment, Understanding DID and tagged: alters, amnesia, dissociative identity disorder, healing, integration, revelations, Therapy and Treatment, trauma, traumatic memories, triggers
Last week my good friend Anna sent me a fantastic email – “Omigod my life has changed… three and a half weeks ago I just kinda… integrated. Spontaneously, and it held!”
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October 3, 2008 at 4:26 pm · Filed under Comments, Information, multiple personality disorder, Personal Musings, Understanding DID and tagged: alters, amnesia, coping mechanisms, DID, dissociation, emotional numbing, flashbacks, MPD dissociative identity disorder, multiple personality disorder, PTSD, traumatic memories
Does DID/MPD exist as a clinical condition, or is DID/MPD “just an extreme example of what we all do every day.”?
Is this an “either/or” question or do these really say the same thing?
These thoughts and words come from a post that Annenco sent me – a post from someone who attempts to explore and resolve the concept of DID/MPD in 400 words or less. Hers is a kinder, gentler stereotype – tempering the concept into something everyone can more easily reject.
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May 23, 2008 at 1:37 pm · Filed under Coping strategies, Therapy and Treatment, Vent-Rant and tagged: DID, dissociative identity disorder, healing, medication, multiple personality disorder, therapy, traumatic memories
Okay, so after months and months, I found the rage. That I have been encouraged to get in touch with for nearly a year. Now how the hell do I deal with it when the only solution offered is just to “keep coming to therapy?
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May 22, 2008 at 4:35 pm · Filed under Researched Topics, Therapy and Treatment, Understanding DID, Understanding PTSD and tagged: amnesia, amygdala, DID, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, hippocampus, multiple personality disorder, PTSD, traumatic memories, Vietnam
Since a few of us are rabidly into facts and physical proof, I’ve done some research to understand the biological and physiological changes that accompany DID and PTSD. While those with mental disorders may disparagingly be called “head cases,” it turns out that in the physical sense, that’s actually true .
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April 20, 2008 at 5:58 pm · Filed under Researched Topics, Understanding DID and tagged: amnesia, amygdala, DID, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, dreams, duality, hippocampus, hypnagogia, Jung, multiple personality disorder, multiplicity, paranormal, REM sleep, traumatic memories
A strange experience last night launched this morning’s digging for information. I awoke disjointed and wondering, whose nightmare had I been having. It was clearly not my own.
Shortly after I went to sleep, the feelings started. Instead of my normally detailed narrative dreams, what I experienced had a content I couldn’t quite reach. As if I was experiencing the body thrashings of someone else’s nightmares.
My research took me from hypnagogia, to theta waves, amnesic memories, co-consciousness, and amazingly, back around to the multiplicity of unity that is Jung.
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Believing the first 4/6 of the Dissociative Spectrum, but not the rest
October 3, 2008 at 4:26 pm · Filed under Comments, Information, multiple personality disorder, Personal Musings, Understanding DID and tagged: alters, amnesia, coping mechanisms, DID, dissociation, emotional numbing, flashbacks, MPD dissociative identity disorder, multiple personality disorder, PTSD, traumatic memories
Does DID/MPD exist as a clinical condition, or is DID/MPD “just an extreme example of what we all do every day.”?
Is this an “either/or” question or do these really say the same thing?
These thoughts and words come from a post that Annenco sent me – a post from someone who attempts to explore and resolve the concept of DID/MPD in 400 words or less. Hers is a kinder, gentler stereotype – tempering the concept into something everyone can more easily reject.
Read the rest of this entry »
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