A New Way of Thinking In the past, some alters were called “persecutors” or persecutory alters. This is now an outdated term. We now prefer to call these alters “perpetrator-imitating parts,” which is...
Did you know your alters might be mad at you even if you think you have done nothing that should have angered them? Let’s take a look at five possible reasons. Now let’s look at it from their...
I talked in a previous video about what dissociation is and how it is losing contact with the present moment in some way. It’s not always the case that dissociation leads to amnesia, such as when one...
Some members of a dissociative identity system are stuck in trauma time. This means they are experiencing old traumas of the past as if they are still happening right now. This is a horrific...
If you are new to your realization of having DID, what I’m going to talk about today might be difficult to hear: You are an alter and not any more valid or “real” than the other alters in your system...
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is frequently misdiagnosed as schizophrenia. One reason for this is that some mental health professionals continue to refuse to accept that DID is a real condition...
If you are a survivor of extended childhood trauma, you learned to maximize your safety through certain behaviors. You might have learned: You likely even believed that you deserved to be treated so...
Dissociation is something of a confusing topic. Like many things, dissociation can happen across a spectrum. Not all dissociation is abnormal, pathological, or something to worry about. In fact...
A common question is “Does DID ever go away?” I think the answer depends on how you define “go away.” If a person’s definition of “go away” is to no longer have alters, then, yes. DID systems can...