December 14, 2024.Reading time 5 minutes.
Noise. Music without the sound is noise. And that’s what I hear. I could easily get distracted right now. Perhaps I already am. Music is literally playing in the background but in my mind there is no sound. I haven’t been myself today. I don’t know who I’ve been. I wish I could shake […]
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July 5, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.
I’ve been writing about my mental illness since 2009. Why do I do it? Why do I write about my mental illness when most people do not like to discuss it and prefer to keep it private? Why do I keep coming back, post after post, willing to share the […]
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October 11, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.
Should a loved one or a friend ever be allowed to force a switch in someone with dissociative identity disorder (DID)? What does forcing a switch mean? Let’s go back to basics first. In DID, a switch is when a person changes from one alter ego state to another, or, in very loose terms, from […]
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October 3, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.
Persecutory alters are something that can exist within a dissociative identity disorder (DID) system. We, ourselves, live with this kind of alter. We can feel threatened, taunted, and condemned by this kind of alter. We are harassed with negative messages in our head, screaming that we deserved the abuse and the […]
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September 5, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.
Curious phenomenon how those of us with dissociative identity disorder can have opposite-gender alters. Read on to find out how and why. https://bit.ly/2lyPq7A
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