Hypervigilance has been a painful part of my life since I was able to form an independent thought. If you have never experienced this phenomenon, then you do not understand how hypervigilance negatively affects the lives of those, like me, who know it intimately. In this piece, we shall discover together the definition of hypervigilance, [...]
Category: brain damage
An Alternate Explanation of Integration
Integration is the most controversial and debated topic in the DID community? Why?
Waiting for the Other Shoe to Fall
Life as a multiple has many aspects that we share in common with others who live with the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder. But besides the existence of alters and the chaos that brings, I think the anxiety that comes with DID is one of the hardest. The anxiety I’m speaking about here isn’t from [...]
Important Facts About Childhood Trauma
Traumatic Memory Retrieval in Dissociative Identity Disorder
Have you ever wanted to know just of what a "repressed" memory is and how it is formed?
Treating the Brain Damage Caused by Severe Childhood Trauma
Can Mental Health Disorders be Cured? There is Hope!
The Neuropsychiatry of Dissociative Identity Disorder
What changes occur in the brains of people who live with DID?
Trauma and the Brain
An important work by Dr. Bessell van der Kulk