Benefits of a Day Trip to Fort Worth Stockyards with a Group of Dissociative Survivors Yep, an ADVENTURE Walk with a Giant Texas Twist of Texas Fun, Texas Glitz and Glam, Texas Farm Animals, and Texas Barbeque. A group of Dissociative Trauma Survivors out on the town together. DID Systems having fun, connecting safely, and exploring the sights. "Howdy, y'all!" YES, we did that. We sure … [Read more...]
The Importance of Community for Dissociative People
Picture taken from the P4 THEME SONG! Listen to it in the video below. One of the main, most impactful take-away's from the P4² DID Conference was the opportunity for dissociative people to truly connect with other dissociative people, in a variety of settings, both formal and informal. The opportunity to be comfortably dissociative, to be natural (plural or otherwise), to sit relaxed around folks who also … [Read more...]
Our Normal Complicated Selves – a place to write about anything
I was given a great idea by one of the readers here at Discussing Dissociation: I would love to see a thread/topic here that really didn’t have any topic other than maybe people connecting or checking in if they wanted to. Maybe even about things that have nothing to do with DID. It would be nice to have a spot where we could just be our normal complicated selves. “I just made the best pot of … [Read more...]
DID Trauma Survivors and Getting Support from Other People – or not?
Dissociative trauma survivors need emotional support. However, this can be difficult to achieve. As the show, "United States of Tara" is gradually starting to demonstrate, survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder have friends and family members that offer varying levels of support: Those that find dissociative trauma survivors to be really good, kind, decent, and wonderful people, and will stand by them … [Read more...]