Do you have DID kids or DID teenagers or DID adults who have difficulty in knowing how to play? Do you have insiders who are violent or mean to others? We all know that exposure to violence and trauma adds to these problems, but it can be more than just that. Children who are repeated neglected and abused typically do not have enough fun and playtime in their everyday life. Instead of having a great time … [Read more...]
Pinwheels to Prevent Child Abuse
Hey Everyone -- I received an email about this, and wanted to pass along the news to you as well. On April 16, 2013, at 9 am, Prevent Child Abuse America will be making a dramatic visual statement in New York City. In their words, they are turning the "Big Apple" into the "Big Pinwheel" by displaying around 5000 pinwheels in Times Square. The pinwheel is the new national symbol for child … [Read more...]
10 Life-Lessons I’ve Learned from Multiples, part 2
To continue the previous post, here are five more life-lessons I’ve learned from my years working with those with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/MPD). By their life example, multiples have shown me: 6. Spiritual Strength even Under Persecution Most survivors with DID and long-term severe abuse have had various religious / spiritual connotations mixed in with that abuse, creating a version of … [Read more...]
10 Benefits of Being Multiple
Are there any benefits to being multiple? In the typical process of trauma therapy, your therapist and the dissociative trauma survivor will spend a great deal of time talking about how difficult it is to be multiple -- and it is difficult, no doubt about it. For the typical multiple, there were years and years of pain and horror and abuse requiring the need to split over and over into a number of … [Read more...]
When It’s Dark and Scary on the Inside…
Trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder can see an internal world. Step back, turn around an look inside - it will be there. What happens if you have looked inside and all you see is a lot of darkness, or desolation, and not so many people with welcome arms? First of all, think about what internal darkness means to you as an individual. There are a variety of … [Read more...]