This Sense Can Interrupt Flashbacks

One of your senses transmits its sensory information directly to your amygdala. Because of this, this sense is the quickest trigger for flashbacks. This sense is also the quickest way to interrupt a...

Doubts About Having DID/OSDD

Many times, people who are experiencing symptoms of DID or OSDD question themselves and doubt that it could really be happening because of a lack of clear memories. People will wonder how they could...

Necessary for Recovery

The Key Condition There’s a key condition for recovery. Do you have any idea what it is? If you said safety or safe living circumstances, you are right! If your circumstances are unsafe, you will be...

A Risk Factor for DID and OSDD

DID doesn’t just happen randomly or without reason. In fact, it takes fairly specific circumstances and traumas to develop DID. I want to focus on one circumstance that sets the stage for DID, OSDD...

A Model to Help You Better Understand Your System

If you’re early in your recovery journey you might be confused by your system and feel overwhelmed by the other parts. You can use the Structural Dissociation model to help you start to figure out...

Five Steps to Unblending

What is Blending? Before we can talk about unblending, we first have to understand what blending is. Have you ever felt some emotion very strongly but couldn’t point to any reason why? Or perhaps it...

Suddenly Developing DID Symptoms

You may be in your 30s, 40s, 50s, or older and suddenly realizing or suspecting that you have DID. And you may understandably be wondering how you could appear to be fine for so many years and then...

The Three Phases of Trauma Therapy

Phase One: Stabilization Experts have come to an agreement that trauma therapy, no matter what kind of therapy is used, should occur in three phases. This is sometimes called the Tri-Phasic treatment...

How Does Trauma Relate to DID?

I’ve been making videos and talking about trauma for months now and it has occurred to me that perhaps I should talk about what trauma is. In our culture, trauma is often trivialized, with people...