A Day in the Life

After watching several DID Systems produce videos from their point of view, we thought it might be interesting to also show the world what a day can feel like in our brain. Here's a three-minute video showing how it feels from our POV on a good day when we went out to the Farmer's Market.... Continue Reading →

The Theater of Multiple Personalities

Having DID is like: This is the experience of our system, not to be interpreted as anyone else’s. (Yes, I/we often use plural pronouns) Explaining co-consciousness in theater terms: When a personality inhabits the body, or “fronts,” as we call it, they are on stage. Sometimes more than one personality or alter is on stage,... Continue Reading →

Hershel Walker Needs Help

There aren't many public figures who have come out about their diagnoses of Dissociative Identity Disorder, but I'm considering starting a series here about those who have. Our first subject is Hershel Walker. Mr. Walker is a person in Georgia running for a political office who is a former football player. Hershel Walker authored a... Continue Reading →

Religious Dysphoria

Have you ever entered your body to find it performing religious practices that offend your very soul? No? Well, you may not deal with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) then. In September 2021, a few alters who have been primary in the past, in the MyMEs system, came forward to take over as the "Maggie" alter... Continue Reading →

Time-Sharing This Body

I haven't been writing a lot on this blog. Instead, I have been making a habit of talking about Dissociative Identity Disorder very casually. Sometimes, I just refer to it as "my mental illness," other times I make sure to concentrate on the facets that have a wider mutual understanding, like complex-PTSD and anxiety as... Continue Reading →

A Colonoscopy, Ketamine and Polyfragmentation

When we were diagnosed in late 2015 with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), we initially came up with about 20 names that there was some sort of record in the brain or externally of the body having used. In three years of off-and-on treatment, the number of alters that have made their presence known some way... Continue Reading →

Who Lit the Gas?

... Its effect is to gradually undermine the victim’s confidence in his own ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or reality from appearance...

“I heard you said…”

As a woman whose body is shared by many different personalities, every single one of my social nightmares begins the same way:  With someone approaching me as these words coming out of their mouth, "I heard you said..." It really doesn't matter what comes next. The words will all fade out no matter what they... Continue Reading →

The Enterprise, A Suicide, and A Multiple Romance

I have been working with my new therapist, Dr. S., for almost four months now. The idea of a log progressed to a different app which was very versatile as well as easy to use, but my inner people decided it was too invasive and have stopped using it. All except for Boo, who likes to... Continue Reading →

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