honestly thank you for this video, ill take more considerable action toward getting a form of therapy. ive suspected since 2011 (im 22 now) that i have DID and this video has given me a lot of hope about what my future may hold. its really reassuring to hear someone talk about all the points in such clarity, very eye opening. it has taken me the last 3 years of yes no maybe no yes to figure out a little bit how many problems i have, and honestly this video has given me a LOT more hope then any piece of content or media i have seen on the subject. i really wish i could have gone just not touched the DID at all but once you really notice and start chipping away the rabbit hole i nearly fell into was the darkest in my life, i really hope i can find what i need in the future but this video has given me a lot more hope then ive had at any point so far. i honestly could not thank you enough

I experience those 5 symptoms daily. I was diagnosed ADD, bipolar, major depressive disorder and PTSD... it kept changing, the meds kept changing.. they all made me feel like a ghost and induced seratonin syndrome twice.. I had continuous severe traumas of all forms during childhood. I know i disassociate a lot, especially when driving, there's a lot of people around me or i'm stressed, which is often. I can't remember where i put something i had in my hands a few minutes ago, sometimes don't recognize places ive been before, have no sense of direction at all, i get lost a lot driving and don't remember what turns i took or where i need to go.. need a map usually even in small towns, only remember bits from childhood, like in flashes, frequent panick attacks, can't keep on weight at all.. have aphantasia as an adult but know i used to be able to visualize as a younger child, think i look like an alien and struggle with feeling like it's me in the mirror even though i know it is, I'm always wondering if i'm a narcissist or a crazy person.. i am fairly successful in life, managing a job and home life but the memory issue is bothering me lately. I escaped an abusive narcissist 3 years ago and started studying psychology as a way to start my healing journey and try to understand why i kept ending up with narcissists. I was so sick in the hospital for 5 years before my body couldn't take the constant stress anymore and i moved 3 provinces away.. i'm trying to learn everything i can about myself so i can 'find' myself.. i only really knew the reactions i had and the feelings, not the person i am. I have two distinct parts of my personality. I do not feel like they are separate personalities or separate people.. they are two parts of me. One comes out when i feel in danger or experience strong emotions usually caused by stress triggered by a childhood event. I have food issues, likely because food was used as a regular form of punishment.

Very good for me. Trying to cover something as complex as this in one hour isn't easy. Personal experience of (someone), we eventually uncovered 5 personalities at different ages and were able to associate each with experiences. It took a huge amount of trust to get there and even more to then expose it to friends (DID NOT the reasons). Once able to do that, the characters really backed off and let us get on with life much more calmly. It seems clear that the earlier the defence mechanism kicks in, then the brain forms around this for its mechanism for future events, hence 5 characters ranging from around 6-7 through to early 20s. This has been a good reminder for me that it never goes away, and that can be easy to forget. Certainly one of the most emotional journeys I've been on, and I wish I was younger and have time to help others with the same problem.

Psychedelics can bring great improvement. I am not kidding

Thank you for explaining osdd so well, which is what I have

Again, thank you. Do you have a info session on autism and dissociation ??? Thought for years I have some version of D. Newly dx ASD. Wondering on the mixes seen in your work ?? Thanks 💞💙👊

Wonderful exposition. Thank you !!! 💞💙👊

Very helpful

We have amnesia, and wake up somewhere unknown, sometimes. Woke up and discovered i had painted my living room blood red. Problem was, i had painted it a week before. It's embarrasing, and scary. Being hurt for years as a child, has resulted in scary episodes, of psychosis, hallucinations,amnesia, and s*lf h*rm feelings. Thankfully got 14 months of therapy, and avoid certain situations when possible

5:47 Would this explain why a person has continuous problems that are sporadic over their lifetime? Especially during stressful times or present traumas? Will a person with a Dissociation Disorder be mostly functional when life is stable, but as soon as something triggering occurs a variety of conditions reactive?

I’m on my way out the door but I’m a twin and my sister has DID but she doesn’t accept it because she has amnesia to her other personality. She wasn’t diagnosed until around 57 years old. But it’s problematic because the diagnosis is not accepted by clinicians. It’s dangerous because she talked her doctor into letting her take her own medications and her potassium levels dropped dangerously low, thyroid too high and her doctor doesn’t realize what he is dealing with. I have been trying to protect her for years but it’s difficult because of HIPPA. Sometimes I feel like we were raised completely different although my father was scary. I still though keep wondering what happened. I have absolutely no doubt that she has DID. I have had so many ah ha moments after realizing that she does this. It took her brain tumor before I realized what was happening. I wonder how she hid it for so long but she did. I have to go

What about abusing music ?…

Not a fan of the MID. Too many questions looking for borderline-type responses. Adults with DID often have far better reality-testing and social skills than BPD. They don't pit providers on a unit against each other with the same enjoyment, and they don't try to trap providers in lies. The DES is also insufficient. Please consider using the new SCID-D. Far more diagnostic as well as useful for treatment planning.

Quickly, my sisters handwriting changes drastically. She is obviously tidy and her alternate messes stuff up, eats her food, messes with her computer and accuses people of stealing from her constantly. I keep trying to figure out what happened. She has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia too and she is absolutely paranoid but I have never been certain about that. She got kicked out of her last ALF because of her alternate but she thinks they are lying about things she did and gets angry with me. I have to be careful about when I speak openly about it. I have to go but I can’t tell you how much I would love to pick your brains.

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This how the people survive they dissosciate from the evil they know is their. And if they prosper from lies they embrace it.

Great stuff - well done and thank you Dr. Kate et al, g (seans)

Very informative and highly interesting. One thing though, Dr. Kate's referring is kind of...how do I put it nicely...well she mostly only repeats the content of the slides, word for word almost. If one can understand what she's saying due to the severe mumbling situation..Sorry 😅