Starting Therapy: Finding the Right Match

On my blog entry entitled What is the Point of Therapy?, a reader posted the following comment: Faith, I’m happy for you that you found a good therapist. That’s not so easy. It took me several attempts before I found someone serious … I would encourage anybody who is reluctant, or who has had a [...]

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How Long Does Therapy Last?

One question that many child abuse survivors have is how long they are going to have to stay in therapy. The answer to this question is as varied as those who seek therapy. Some people will only feel the need to work with a therapist for a few months while others will still be seeing [...]

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What is the Point of Therapy?

When I started having flashbacks, I was determined not to get a therapist. It is a long story why, but the important point is that I was determined to go through the healing process by myself. I figured that I could work through the Survivor to Thriver Manual and do just fine. I was wrong. [...]

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New Show about DID: Showtime’s “United States of Tara”

Showtime has a new show coming out called United States of Tara in which Toni Collette plays a “suburban mom suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder” (DID). The January 26 – February 8 issue of the TV Guide ran an article about the program. All excerpts in this blog are taken from that article, which can [...]

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Channeling your Intensity after Child Abuse

If there is one adjective that people use frequently to describe me, it is intense. I honestly do not know how to be any other way. Shallow people who flit around and talk about meaningless topics bore me to tears. I am sure that I scare them to death! Being an intense person has its [...]

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Pacing your Healing from Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

If my therapist is reading my blog right now, he is probably dying laughing at my attempt to write about how to pace your healing from polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). If I had a nickel for every time he told me to “slow down” during my first six months of healing, I would be [...]

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How to Heal from Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Healing from polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is possible. I know it is possible because I have done it. I had several layers of alter parts, which included mostly personality fragments but also some full alter parts/alter egos. I am now mostly integrated. According to my therapist, I will always have some residue and recover [...]

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How Multiple Systems for People with Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Work

Many people mistakenly believe that Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is obvious. This is likely due to the media’s portrayal of DID in movies such as Sybil. The whole point of DID is for the abused child to be whatever she needs to be in any situation. The child needs to be seamless when she switches [...]

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Multiple Systems for People with Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

This week, I am writing a series on polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). I am hoping that this series will educate people about polyfragmented DID as well offer hope to those with this diagnosis that healing is possible. Polyfragmented DID can manifest in many different ways. What all polyfragmented DID multiple systems have in common [...]

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What is Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?

On my blog entry entitled Encouraging One Another after Child Abuse, a reader posted the following comment: I’ve read things on this page that discussed topics that I’ve never seen anyone brave enough to take on before and I am amazed. I am 43 and have been in therapy more than 2 years now but [...]

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