Dissociation

I decided to post one of my recent journal entries. Do these sound like the words of a crazy person? “January 14, 2023 | 2:04pm I have therapy today and there’s a student going to sit in on the appointment and I’m like loll, she’s in for a real lesson. …

Behind and to the Left… — She looks askance at her hand, suddenly realising it doesn’t belong. It shouldn’t be there. Staring hard at thick piggy flesh. Strange pores with odd twitching hairs as its fingers crawl toward her face to brush the hair back, out of the way, so she might better gaze in pupil-dilating…

The documentaries don’t portray it accurately — Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), which in my opinion as a person with DID, more accurately used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder, is a rare mental illness that happens to people who suffer early repetitive, severe childhood trauma. For me and my alters, which is another name for “personality,” we…

Earlier this year I met with a friend over FaceTime. Until that point, we had been talking solely through text. We had met virtually, found we had a lot in common, and enjoyed sharing about our businesses and life. …

The veil the mind pulls over something that happened to us — In simple terms, dissociation is the psychological response to traumatic stress, but also the separation of oneself from thoughts, feelings, memories, and surroundings. Dissociation is increasingly used by us humans to cope with something incompatible and inconsistent with how we identify with ourselves, how we perceive ourselves, or how we…