I want everyone that has been abused by someone in their childhood to know that you can get past it. Having DID is not the end of the world; it's the beginning of your new life. DID allows the victim of exceptional abuse the ability to “forget” the abuse and continue living. Without it, I may have gone crazy as a teen and spent my life in a as a teen and spent my life in a psychiatric hospital.
Dauna ColeTag: psychology memory crazy healing victim recovery insane child-abuse survivor abuse dissociative-identity-disorder abused childhood-abuse dissociative pyschiatric
I believe the perception of what people think about DID is I might be crazy, unstable, and low functioning. After my diagnosis, I took a risk by sharing my story with a few friends. It was quite upsetting to lose a long term relationship with a friend because she could not accept my diagnosis. But it spurred me to take action. I wanted people to be informed that anyone can have DID and achieve highly functioning lives. I was successful in a career, I was married with children, and very active in numerous activities. I was highly functioning because I could dissociate the trauma from my life through my alters. Essentially, I survived because of DID. That's not to say I didn't fall down along the way. There were long term therapy visits, and plenty of hospitalizations for depression, medication adjustments, and suicide attempts. After a year, it became evident I was truly a patient with the diagnosis of DID from my therapist and psychiatrist. I had two choices.
First, I could accept it and make choices about how I was going to deal with it. My therapist told me when faced with DID, a patient can learn to live with the live with the alters and make them part of one's life. Or, perhaps, the patient would like to have the alters integrate into one person, the host, so there are no more alters. Everyone is different.
The patient and the therapist need to decide which is best for the patient. Secondly, the other choice was to resist having alters all together and be miserable, stuck in an existence that would continue to be crippling. Most people with DID are cognizant something is not right with themselves even if they are not properly diagnosed. My therapist was trustworthy, honest, and compassionate. Never for a moment did I believe she would steer me in the wrong direction. With her help and guidance, I chose to learn and understand my disorder. It was a turning point.
Tag: education psychology understanding suicide awareness healing mental-health mental-health-stigma multiplicity dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder breakthrough split-personality stigma dissociative alters psychiatric-hospital
Changing yourself changes everything.
Bryant McGillTag: perspective change psychology growth healing transformation self-realization personal-development outlook
That which wounds, shall heal.
ApolloTag: healing
Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.
Jaeda DeWaltTag: wisdom life inspirational pain tragedy triumph healing
Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us.
Jaeda DeWaltTag: wisdom life inspirational pain healing wise-words
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves to release us from the shackles of our past. The pain of those who wounded us may linger but it needn't overshadow our happiness.
Jaeda DeWaltTag: wisdom life inspirational happiness forgiveness healing wise-words
It's not a crime to feel sad, down or depressed. Moving through difficult feelings is an essential part of living life authentically. Though society would have us believe that when we are sad, we need to smack a silly smile on our face and pretend everything is okay. Problems arise when we repress, deny or bury these feelings. We need to know when it's time to seek help and support, to avoid becoming overwhelmed by these types of emotion. Life is a bittersweet symphony, we need to hear every instrument and listen to every note.
Jaeda DeWaltTag: wisdom life inspirational sadness healing coping wise-words
Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.
Jaeda DeWaltTag: wisdom inspirational healing listen listening wise-words human-being being-supportive
When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul.
Jaeda DeWaltTag: inspirational pain hope healing
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