by Steven Shelton | Dec 11, 2023 | Blog
As a mental disorder, DID is especially insidious because it pulls at us from every direction. At first, we think we’re imagining things. Once we accept something is wrong, we’re terrified to let anyone know because of how they might react. When we do tell someone,...
by Steven Shelton | Nov 28, 2023 | Blog
November and December have always been trigger months for me as they are for millions of people in this country. The concept of “family” is such a central theme for Thanksgiving and Christmas. When you don’t have a loving and affectionate family, the...
by Steven Shelton | Nov 15, 2023 | Reviews
This is an older book on dissociative identity disorder (DID), but it’s one that is widely read almost twenty years later. As much as I wanted to love this book, it fell quite flat. Oxnam suffered from DID for decades. That’s tragic in and of itself. He goes into...
by Steven Shelton | Nov 14, 2023 | Blog
It’s taken me decades to get the courage to share my mental illness with the public. I’ve had multiple personalities since I was a teenager. Back then, they called it multiple personality disorder (MPD). In the 1990s, they changed it to dissociative identity disorder...
by Steven Shelton | Nov 14, 2023 | Short Stories
Some motherfucker locked me in a coffin. With all the padding around me, I could move only a few inches on each side and above. The claustrophobia kicked in within microseconds causing my heart to race and body to sweat. My clothing soaked through in a couple of...