If someone breaks a leg, is burned, or is otherwise physically injured, it is easy to see. It is shows right there on the surface of their body. Maybe they…
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Characterizing DID: Illness or Injury?
Language has power. Whether you examine it from the point of view of ordinary communication, advertising, or threats, words and how we use them have tremendous impact – some of…
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Disclosing Your DID: A Cautionary Note
I am delighted and honored that Robert Oxnam, author of A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder (Hyperion, 2005) has most kindly consented to be a guest blogger on this…
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Mindfulness Meditation and DID
There was a posting on a DID facebook group that expressed some real difficulties with a mindfulness meditation based therapy the DID individual was trying. This individual was not alone…
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DID and Schizophrenia – Part 2
Colin Ross, a pioneer and authority on DID, proposes to consider DID as a type of schizophrenia with dissociative features. He made this decision because “two thirds of people with…
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