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6 days agoHow Childhood Trauma Shapes Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder develops from chronic childhood trauma as a protective dissociation mechanism that becomes maladaptive over time.
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1 month agoWhy the Grief Ripples So Deeply When an Advocate Dies
'They're dead.' In disbelief, my response was unfiltered. 'What?' Followed by the F word. A wave of emotion rushed through me. My chest tightened. My body went cold. I could not immediately find the words to offer condolences, not because I did not feel them deeply, but because inside, my many parts were experiencing a collective shock. When you live with dissociative identity disorder (DID), news like this does not land in one place. It ricochets across all parts within.
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