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Uggh this!! And this! Definitely this I think there's a real logic to this if you really think about it... when we go through a trauma, we have to disconnect or dampen things on one level, to get through it. So that lived experience is almost less than what we imagine another person's...

Thank you, I appreciate it alot 🙏

thank you for acknowledging this... there's no amount of trying and conceptualising i can do to accept all this on an emotional level.... but I guess the therapeutic process is helping on some level to encourage me to look at things differently. Yes I am like you lol and do prefer complicated...

I agree completely with this. I don't like the term disorder. I think language is so important because it has so many subtle meanings behind it, often meanings we take on but don't notice. I think it could be called dissociative condition or dissociative mechanism or something, or response...

Hi everyone, thank you for ALL of your responses ... I can always rely on such well considered opinions and thoughts from people here... people who understand, which is worth alot! I took alot from everyone of your posts 🙏 Reading all your replies helped me to think about the situation.. on...

I have a very good therapist (clinical Psychologist). 6 months in and I have to say I feel very well held and contained in general. But I've been struggling with knowing how to accept my diagnosis of having a dissociative disorder. Been having glimpses of seeing how it fits. And when that...

Hi @Compass307 I don't have an iPhone unfortunately but I'm using Joplin for my own journalling, then anything I want to share with my T, I then put on Penzu I paid for a year long subscription (only £12.50 ish for a whole year). So that means I can make multiple books. I have one for T to...

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Thank you! Think I'll try the free version first... if I need the extra features, I'll think about paying the pro. Works out at about £1.80 a month, so not too bad!

Thanks @Jade- ... yes this is the type of thing I've been looking for... I'll have a go with it.. can I ask, do you pay for a more advanced version? And if so, what do the features help you with? 🙏

My issue is, I live with others who could potentially find my journal (including my son who is a child). I can also mislay things and I have, in the past, left things around I've written which other people have read. I'm also paranoid about dying and others having access to it (my partner died...

Yes! Not a bad idea! I could do that... I will if there's no other way to link it to all my other accounts...

Ah nice to hear from you too @Midnightmoon ! Hope things are going a bit better for you @somerandomguy the security on Google docs isn't good enough I don't think... wouldn't want it linking to my Google drive and account I don't think... but thanks for the suggestion

Hi everyone, . I'm looking for an app, or shared platform, to use between therapy sessions with my therapist. Part of the difficulty for me right now, as a result of my dissociative disorder, is pretty bad amnesia. I do forget session content and more importantly I forget the states I...

Oooh no I haven't heard of this.. I'll look it up... but I can kind of see the logic.. this is what I need... it's what the somatic therapist said we'll do too.. work up to me tolerating an increased heart rate slowly without that signaling danger to my body...

🙏 Great suggestion thanks... I've never heard of him or this work... Historically, mindfulness has been hard for me...I did a course once and it back fired...I was in a group of people and I was the only one who couldn't sit with myself being 'mindful' ... it was too triggering..I just kept...

I've been considering this in relation to myself in a number of different scenarios, where i can see in hindsight, this may have been what was going on... No, it is helpful as I recognise this process you're describing I'll say!! I think I would have found that incredibly challenging- like...

This 1000000000 % !! (Sorry I'll pipe down now @Midnightmoon!).

I think this is what I've been avoiding doing. Ties in I guess with communicating with parts...I think I like this concept better than 'Go and communicate with your parts'. Spending time with a part of myself feels much less expectant. I like the concept of being an observer too. Not sure if...

Definitely NOT a you problem! I'd argue it's actually damaging. I can see why... 😞 I've found this really helpful too... Oh god yeah, totally agree!! Stay away from YouTube vids etc of people with DID / OSDD! ... not wanting to offend anyone sharing their experience of having a DD, but what...

@Midnightmoon - maybe you've seen this already, but I thought this sums up quite well whare we were talking about before earlier on in the thread, re the importance of the face to face interaction with the therapist... how this impacts on a nervous system level (causing more challenge and...

This is so interesting (and really helpful to hear) @Sideways .. and what you say in the context of your experience, makes sense... This is so so hard. If I had to sum up one of my main issues it's this. I can't trust my suffering internally. As in validate it from many different angles. I...

🙂 The one thing i found when i went wasthat she didn't have a big shock (not on her face at least). She just treated me as if it were like any other referral she would have to do. I think sometimes we create stories in our own heads about how other people will think or feel about it all. In...

I was too... really shocked...i was expecting the GP to refuse. But i had an online consultation with the dissociative disorder clinic director back in September to explain my situation, that i had a diagnosis, but i didn't accept it, but did need help. Asked for opinion on whether he thought...

@Midnightmoon I'm so sorry, you have so much to contend with... let me get my initial thoughts down before they go... 1) I feel there is a power differential going on between new T and you. So many behaviours of hers that you've outlined on this thread, are totally unacceptable as a T - and...