Fear. Secrecy. Pain. These are just a few of the emotions affecting those who live with dissociative identity disorder. What is it like to live with dissociated parts of oneself? Who controls the chaos? What triggers a switch? How do they feel about integration?
In Through the Eyes of DID, ordinary people who live with dissociative identity disorder invite readers inside their world and open up to give honest—and sometimes profound—answers to common questions. Confessing struggles, fears, and hopes, the collection of heartfelt stories offers firsthand insight into the diversity of DID from nonclinical perspectives, and highlights the unexpected ways ordinary people find strength, courage, and hope even when bound by societal stigma.
Зміст
1 The Beginning
2 Learning the Diagnosis
3 Awareness of Others
4 Our Different Parts
5 Waking Up Someplace Else
6 Our Daily Routine
7 Going Out in Public
8 The System Within
9 Making Arrangements
10 Determining a Leader
11 Living with Triggers
12 Living with Physical Pain
13 Struggling with Self Harm
14 The Face in the Mirror
15 Confessing Our Fears
16 Managing a Family
17 Working with Therapists
18 Explaining Our Uniqueness
19 Finding a Silver Lining
20 Walking the Journey
Про автора
AMELIA JOUBERT and her alter, Scarlet, run an online support group for people with DID, blog about their experiences, and host You Tube videos about living with dissociative identity disorder. Amelia is published in several Grief Diaries books, and is authoring a new book about surviving suicide. [email protected].