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Three Kids in a Trench Coat
Our experiences living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and reflections on navigating life as ‘we’ & ‘me’
Recent posts
- “We are a them” – Identiteaze is a joyful representation of plurality
- Decisions, dissociating the positives, and Us & Pluribus
- The other side of the fence: Taking part in research
- “Wait – why are we here?” An example of Passive Influence
- Merry Christmas, kiddos
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We’ve covered popular media like Severance & Expedition 33: Clair Obscur, from our trenchcoat here on the blog. But here’s one you may not have heard of… Identiteaze is a 2024, 45-minute drama, written & directed by Jessie Earl. It’s exclusive to the Nebula subscription service, and it’s not a big-budget affair – so I…
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It’s been an interesting month or two for us. — Decisions, decisions We don’t want to talk specifics, because it’s early days and some of us sometimes feel forced by what we share – but I’ve been making some decisions recently, and sticking by them, even when they felt hard. In the confusion of trauma…
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Research is awesome. We’ve worked in the field of psychology & health research for over 15 years. Well, now we’re getting involved in a slightly different way – by participating in a study being led by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London (KCL). It’s on sense of self and self-related processing in…
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In the dissociation & parts lingo, you might hear people talking about something called, “passive influence”. This is where a part that isn’t currently “fronting” influences the part(s) up front through thoughts, behaviours, urges, sensations, etc. These influences may be experienced as, “ego dystonic” – i.e. as not arising from oneself. Sometimes, you might come…
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The holidays are a mixed bag, for us. We used to love love love Christmas, and I think, we’ve continued that enthusiasm throughout most of our life. There have been exceptions, and last year was a really, really tough one. Last Christmas was one of the hardest days of my life (that I can remember…
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Right up front here – hopefully this’ll be accessible to both people who’ve played the game, and those that haven’t. But if you haven’t played it or finished it yet, disclaimer for the fact that there are gonna be spoilers for the whole story. — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a video game released earlier…
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I have, it’s safe to say, fallen deep, deep, down a rabbithole of looking for representation of DID experiences in media this last 1-2 years. I wrote a post that covers a lot of good resources here. But I’ve come across a few more things recently I thought might be worth calling out. Set This…
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— — Severance is an amazing TV show. It’s also a great portrayal of certain aspects of dissociation, particularly Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The word, “dissociation” means “severance; division; disunion.” (from the latin dissociare – to sever or divide). Dan Erikson, the show’s creator, has said the idea came from back when he worked a…
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— Trusting other people isn’t something that comes naturally to us. Well, to me, anyway. Some of us are very easily trusting, I think – others less so. Because of our early life experiences, we remained many ducks in one nest, so our brain made a team. Some of us wanted to be close to…
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I’ve talked about it a little bit, and how I don’t use the term much, but “switching” is part & parcel of DID, so I’m going to try and explain a little bit. I don’t want to pretend to understand this better than I do, so if you dissociate and your experience of the whole…
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