Dealing with Diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

On my blog entry entitled Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): Opening up Internal Communication, a reader posted the following comment: Im so scared. Ive been diagnosed for a yr now. I dont believe any of it. I dont understand. I feel forced to believe worse things happened but I dont recall. Im just lost. The therapy [...]

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Importance of Spirituality in Healing from Child Abuse

On my blog entry entitled Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Repetitive Thoughts, a reader posted the following comment: I mostly shut out any thought that is remotely spiritual. ~ Sarah Many child abuse survivors do the same thing as Sarah, particularly those who have suffered from spiritual abuse. Because our spirituality was used against us as [...]

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Using Your Intuition to Guide Your Healing

On my blog entry entitled Techniques for Accessing the Subconscious Mind: Free Association Writing, a reader posted the following questions: 1. What if what you write is just the same over and over again? Nothing new, just the same thing? This is so frustrating, another block. I want to be able to unlock hidden areas, [...]

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DID: How to Handle “Coming to” After Losing Time

On my blog entry entitled Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): Losing Time vs. “Normal” Memory, a reader posted the following comment: Today I was at a meeting and I “woke up” in the middle of some kind of discourse fully unaware of what I was saying. I tried to catch up with myself but felt like [...]

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Applying “Sitting With” Painful Emotions to DID

On Friday, I wrote about learning how to “sit with” painful emotions after child abuse. A reader posted the following question to that blog entry: Have DID and the memory am dealing with is held by a young very sad part. I am not sure how to cope with what seems like “her” emotion which [...]

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Learning to “Sit With” Painful Emotions after Child Abuse

All day yesterday, I felt sad. I was able to recognize that this sadness had nothing to do with today. This is the lingering sadness from the flashback I recovered recently. I tried very hard to follow my therapist’s advice and allow myself to “sit with” the pain rather than try to stuff it down [...]

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): Losing Time vs. “Normal” Memory

On my blog entry entitled Do People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Know That They Have It?, a reader posted the following question: Dear Faith, I was just running through this blog and am hearing about lost time which I have heard of many times before and never really understood what it meant in terms [...]

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and Malfunctioning Watches

For those of you with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), how many of you have trouble wearing a watch? My sister (who does not have DID but who has been diagnosed with severe PTSD) has never been able to wear a watch. Within a day or two, the watch will [...]

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Inspiring Keynote Address: Make a Difference

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a college graduation at which Brent Rasmussen, president of CareerBuilder.com, was the keynote speaker. As he spoke, I kept thinking about all of you as well as my Blooming Lotus blog. His keynote address focused upon three points: Use what you know for social good. Never stop [...]

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Empowering Dream: Confronting Place of Child Abuse

I had an empowering dream that I just had to share. I was an adult, and I was going to hang out with E, who is one of my real-life friends. We always hang out on Saturdays. I realized that it was Christmas and felt good about not being all depressed and anxious for once. [...]

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