Learning to navigate life with DID when you feel like…
Three Kids in a Trench Coat
Our experiences living with dissociative identities (DID), and reflections on navigating life as ‘we’ & ‘me’
Recent posts
- Lost in abstraction – The Amazing Digital Circus
- It is done – PREDICTSELF final session
- Hello, and welcome to Staying Awake…
- The fascinating (and sometimes useless) world of brain science
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A few weeks ago, days before I was running a 4 day festival (we run a by-friends, for-friends shindig for ~150 people each year), a friend messaged me about a show they really thought I should watch. That show was The Amazing Digital Circus. It turned out it was a series on YouTube, but that…
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So, recently we completed the fourth and final session as a participant in PREDICTSELF, a study into sense of self in people with DID, run by researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London (KCL). PREDICTSELF sessions 1-3: A recap Session 1 was a SCID-D based assessment interview, that…
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People with DID, more often than not, have difficulty sleeping. Not necessarily all the time – we, for example, have periods where we sleep just fine. But find me a person with DID who hasn’t had periods in their life where they just weren’t sleeping and I’ll…. I dunno, eat a hat. A pillow? No,…
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Ok that’s probably the most ‘clickbait’ sounding title I think I’ve ever written, but bear with me. — Reflecting on DID with researchers at KCL While we were doing the EEG session at KCL the other day, we had some really interesting chats with the lead researcher. She asked if we feel like everyone with…
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A few recent experiences of watching / reading things, and talking about life as a system with the DID researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London have got me appreciating anew just how much the 6-episode TV series of Moon Knight (starring Oscar Isaac) gets right about DID. I’ve…
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I’m a very logical, rational person, or at least I so often try to be. Even when I’m letting go of those kinds of self-labelling, I tend to try and think my way through my problems. I’m very, “in my head”. But so much healing, getting to know yourself, learning to live with more calm…
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There’s something that I think a lot of systems can identify with when it comes to time & energy management, and that’s fitting everything in. When one of you is a dancer, and one likes walks in the woods, one runs, one lifts weights… well, that’s a lot to do with one body day in…
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There’s a weird thing that happens with DID (in our experience, anyway – but I’ve heard other systems talk about similar) where you can mentally accept everything that’s going on with clarity & clear thinking…. but you’re not feeling it. In fact, your not feeling anything. You’re still in that dissociated, frozen state, while your…
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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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