With so much pressure out in the therapeutic world to integrate, my question back to that, is why?? Dissociative trauma survivors need healing from all the wounding, and safety from any further abuse, yes, absolutely of course. And some blending will occur naturally with internal / external safety, with good communication, and with excellent internal team work. But what's wrong with experiencing a safe … [Read more...]
Do Dissociative Trauma Survivors Actually Lose Time?
One of the diagnostic criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder is experiencing amnesia or lost time. While losing time may seem like an obvious hole in your every day life, it really might not be as obvious as it seems it could be. For dissociative trauma survivors, the sliding of time is a normal everyday way of life. It just is how it is, and time feels very different for DID survivors than it does for other … [Read more...]