Category Archives: mental health

General Mental Health Topics

PTSD Resilience: A Culture Condition?


PTSD is perhaps partially a disease of civilization, taught peers and the current society.  Some people think it’s gotten worse.  I think it’s gotten better.  Now we have a word for PTSD’s symptomology, prognosis, and diagnosis, which gives medical people … Continue reading

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DID & The Concept of Souls Within


What if DID – dissociative identity disorder (MPD flavored) – was simply God’s way of making more souls – human ones, that is? What if “he” helped make you DID in order to: A) Have more souls to play with, … Continue reading

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DID & Me: The Delusion – A Logical View


This is a logical viewpoint of “DID” through the lens of professionals and most laymen.  The views presented here do not necessarily reflect the views of the entire system, ‘my’ system, or the medical community.  In order to be fair … Continue reading

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The Altering of Alters: Self-Therapy Sessions


We were talking to someone . . . I don’t remember who,  and they were wondering where we fit in on their scale in terms of healing and/or being “healed” (e.g. cured of their abuse and shame issues) – and … Continue reading

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Random: 09032012:1900 – Army Programming; Mom


Stress: My mom has remained under a lot of stress.  All her life she has stressed, been stressed, and stressed about everything – things she can control, things she cannot.  She used to fly into violent rages; huge torrents of … Continue reading

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DID & Me: The Funky Chicken


“DID isn’t that different from regular folks,” I keep telling myself.  Or ‘selves’.  Or parts and sides.  Or trying to . . . We’re well aware here the last few days – or has it already been a week? – … Continue reading

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DID & Me: Alters Having Alters of Their Own


DID & Me: How Alters Can Have Alters of Their Own Alternate personalities apparently can have alternate personalities of their own – ones ‘they’ invented along the way, and which therefore are a part of them.  A part of a … Continue reading

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The Stigma of Severe Head Trauma


A soldier gets shot through the head.  Another one gets blown up by an IED.  They both suffer brain trauma. Do you mock the soldier for his limp, or his inability to speak?  Do you tell him: “Just get over … Continue reading

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Learning to Love The Inner Child


“Slap the inner child”, “tell him to shut up”. Lets add ‘try to kill him’, ‘bury him’. I could also add some other things I’ve done. Truth is: you would *never* do this to a human child who showed up … Continue reading

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Everyone is DID


Everyone is DID, at least a bit.  You have to be.  Those ‘masks‘ you wear to work, that home-time persona – the lover in the darkness, the player with the kids: all ‘aspects’ (in a way) of a DID system. … Continue reading

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