Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Struggle For Trust

Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Struggle For Trust

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,...
Surviving Grief

Surviving Grief

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...
Difficulty of Going Public

Difficulty of Going Public

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...