DID Awareness Day 2024 Here we are again, taking a very specific day to remember there is a complicated kind of life -- a life that 1.5 - 3% of the world population, totalling over 100 million people experience -- living daily with the challenges of Dissociative Identity Disorder, aka DID. Or DID/MPD. Some people have changed the term to Dissociative Identities... or Dissociative Abilities ... … [Read more...]
Integration: A Requirement for DID Therapy – Or Not?
I am well aware that many trauma therapists are highly supportive of the treatment goal to integrate dissociative selves. I have a different approach to this topic. Please understand I am not at all opposed to the idea of integration if that is what the person wants. However, that is a very complicated topic, and I'll discuss the integration issue from that perspective at another time. In my experience, by … [Read more...]