Coping with Mental Illness

Most people do not understand what Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) really is. The media portray DID (formerly known as multiple personality disorder) as several people sharing a body, but...

People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, have alter parts that feel "separate." While television and movie depictions have inferred that...

People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) often have one or more frightened alter parts. Some of these parts might have been so terrorized that they are paralyzed with fear when they...

People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) often have one or more depressed alter parts. Abused children feel an enormous amount of despair, which can choke out all hope of ever living a...

People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) often have one or more alter parts who are children. People with DID were severely traumatized as children on an ongoing basis beginning at a young...

People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) sometimes have one or more animal alter parts. While an animal alter part could take on a variety of forms, it is generally an animal that would be...

People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) often have one or more suicidal alter parts. Some of these parts might be fueled by the deep despair you experienced as a child who was powerless...

People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) often have one or more self-destructive alter parts. When these parts are triggered, you might find yourself engaging in some form of self-injury,...

Many people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) fear the process of integration. As they heal, they grow to love their different alter personalities or alter parts. They see integration as...

Children who suffer from ongoing and severe trauma in early childhood sometimes develop Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). DID is a coping mechanism that enables a young child to survive severe...