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I can clarify that manor hall is no longer a centre for trauma. They have since become an acquired brain injury unit, but as the website was set up before the PIC takeover, and the people who set up the website have left, they are unable to change it. Their PIC website states they are a 26 bed...

I have DID and have also previously (incorrectly) been diagnosed with EUPD. I also have a lot of friends with ptsd and EUPD diagnoses. I personally found parts of DBT helpful, particularly the distress tolerance module. I also know a lot of my friends have found dbt useful. Although I would...

Everyone is different with how they communicate. For example, some of us only communicate through writing, some will talk directly to me (kind of in my head), some it's only feelings. I find speaking outloud to them, or writing directly to them, often they can hear me. I've personally found...

There will be a reason for a part to be acting in this way, there will be a purpose to it. It may be acting something out, it may be a coping mechanism, I don't know. Do you journal? Or have much communication within your system? Could you ask what's going on? Or how you can help them? Or even...

I don't know much about Khiron house to be honest. I know when my care team were looking, they were given better feedback about here, it was recommended by a few people and it was described/sold as a brilliant service. I guess I mean that things have been getting harder (as they will during...

I went to a PODS training day a few years ago. One of the ones they don't deliver anymore, but their training days are really good. They're hard work, but I learnt loads about myself.

I'm currently at a supposedly specialist unit, that came with a higher recommendation than anywhere else at the time. I'm not convinced it is anywhere near the reputation it had to be honest. It has potential but there are so many problems right now. It's actually making matters much worse...

Thanks for this. I have tried sour things and strong mints etc, it's just hard during a flashback to actually do this. I kind of need to be able to get support workers to implement whatever method due to me being so dissociated. I guess things like sweets etc bring a risk of choking so they...

I'm not sure that it is necessarily due to the work in therapy, it was still the same without therapy (when we were between therapists) and whether we're doing processing or not. Distractions aren't working either. Thanks though

Thanks for these suggestions. I'll look into different scented oils and try and work out alternative locations for ice packs

We've been getting caught up in flashbacks and body memories. Full memories, thoughts, feelings, sensations, sounds, smells, pain etc. They can go on for 1hour+ Our support workers used to use scented oils and ice packs to try and help us get grounded from the memories, but they aren't...

Good luck with your therapy. It is hard but I'm trying to remind myself, it will be worth it in the end!

I don't know. An old psychiatrist basically didn't even believe in minor dissociation, as in "normal" dissociation. Although he then deliberately triggered a switch... I don't know how professionals struggle to accept it, when they accept psychosis or schizophrenia etc.

New T is a believer, as are all of the staff that work in the unit... I guess it's just me who struggles to believe that *I* have DID.

PODS is a really good starting point. Thanks for the reply

Thanks. It's taken me a long time to be able to realise this and even longer to admit it. We're working on getting safe

I guess they are. They both come from trauma. I have been told that they are different, and that the are the same by different people.

Thanks. That's good to know re trigger warnings. I wasn't sure. DID is the main diagnosis that we have, but we were first diagnosed with PTSD. DID is a form of ptsd... I'm not really sure! Thanks for the welcomes

Hi. I'm Sarah. Late 20s, female. I live in the UK. We have dissociative identity disorder. Survivor of (ongoing) SRA. We are a poly-fragmented system and we are currently undergoing therapy to try and be able to work together. We have 100+ alters of varying ages and genders and some nonhuman...

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Hi. I'm new to all of this, by that I mean the whole online forum etc. I'm currently undergoing treatment within a specialist Trauma service. It's taken me years to get to the point of accepting that the trauma happened. For a number of years now (10+) I've had a diagnosis of DID, it's taken a...