Learning to navigate life with DID when you feel like…
Three Kids in a Trench Coat
Our experiences living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and reflections on navigating life as ‘we’ & ‘me’
Recent posts
- When the road to recovery feels worse…
- Woah… jamais vu
- Book recommendation – The DID & OSDD Handbook
- One’s on the bottom, strong is he…
- Taking part in research: PREDICTSELF session 1
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Hard therapy session today. I was a bit of a mess. I had to stop and cry. A lot. Most of the rest of the time I had my head in hands with just this heavy feeling of dejection, not saying anything. At one point my therapist commented on what a big achievement something I’d…
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Most people are familiar with the idea of déjà vu – that sense where you feel like you’ve seen something before, but in fact have not. Well, or someone’s changed something in The Matrix. There’s a term we’ve come across a lot less often – “jamais vu” – “never seen”. It’s sort of the opposite…
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… by Ella Everett, foreword by Dr Adrian Fletcher. == A Brilliant Adaptation: How DID and the power of the therapeutic bond saved me, by Sally Maslansky, sounds like a great book, from what we’ve heard. Well, this post isn’t about A Brilliant Adaptation, because we read the first chapter and honestly, were finding it…
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… Two’s in the middle, carrying Three… … Three’s pretending not to be three kobolds in a trenchcoat A friend linked me to this earlier – we instantly loved it, although I can already tell it’s going to be stuck in my head for weeks. Enjoy!
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A couple of months ago, we posted about a research study we’d just enrolled in as a participant; the PREDICTSELF study, on sense of self in DID, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London. We posted about it here. In that post, we talked about screening & assessment of…
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And shout out also to @TheZebraPuzzle for recommending this one to us, soon after we started this blog last year! We listen to podcasts a lot less than we did in our 3-hour-work-commute days as a Behavioural Science Director on the other side of London – but Healing My Parts is probably the first we’ve…
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Harley, our resident 5-year old lil’ cheeky monkey, has been around a lot lately. Can you tell from the title? ^^ We apparently have two chunky looking posts on resources & Night in the Woods in progress, but f-that rn, we’re feeling identity-spicy – so let’s talk about that, rather than indulging our inclination to…
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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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