In an attempt to help us learn, grow and become healthy, we have decided to create a website for ourselves and others who suffer from or who knows someone who suffers from DID/MPD known as DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER or MULITPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER.
There are many of us out there who have DID and feel alone, isolated and afraid of what the future holds for us. There are also many of us out there who have been diagnosed with this disorder and have no idea what it is or how it came about.
Without going into very technical terms about DID, I will just say that it is REAL, it is a disorder and you WILL find people out there who DO believe you and in you. So don't be afraid to find answers and please don't be afraid to go searching to find out what you need to know about DID. There is plenty of information out there, some of it good some of it bad, you need to decide for yourself.
In the pages that will follow, I/We will try to explain a little more about DID and how is manifests in individuals. You will find that we use I and WE when we talk. That is because there are many personalities within us and we all wish to be heard. ALTERS are distinct personalities within the body that take on a personality of their own and have their own agenda's, opinions, thoughts emotions and feelings. As you travel through our pages, it is our hope that you will get a better understanding of what we are talking about.
Also, from this point forward, we will refer to Dissociative Identity Disorder as DID and Multiple Personality Disorder as MPD.
DID is REAL. It is not something we made up, created for attention, or imagine, though there are many out there both professional and lay who will disagree. We have seen many professionals in our years of being DID. Some agree, while others will disagree with our diagnoses. I disagree with those who do not even attempt to understand our illness. I have met too many people who share a common thread with me; DID. All for the same reason in one form or another: CHILDHOOD ABUSE. Abuse in any shape or form beginning in early childhood. For whatever reason, we separated from our "main" identity to SURVIVE. Yes, survive the horrible awful abuses that were put upon us as children.
It is for this reason that we decided to begin a website. To help others who share the same disorder we live with daily and to give them resources to learn more about it. We also want them to know that there is help and support for us. We want to make everyone aware of the importance of how this disorder manifests within an individual.--- Through CHILD ABUSE. If we can recognize this fact, then maybe we can begin to STOP our future children from going through the pain and agony we are going through. The key to a cure for this disorder is to stop the abuse now.
It is our goal to educate as many people as we can on the facts of DID, the resources available and the support that is out there for those who suffer with DID. It is also our hope that we can provide information, resources and support for the family and friends of those of us who suffer DID so that they can understand and help us live our daily lives.
WE will be open an honest and try to give good information. We want you to know that you are NOT alone, that there are many of us out there. More importantly we want you to know that we are all SURVIVORS!!!!!!
We did what we had to do to SURVIVE and we will continue to do what we have to to SURVIVE!!!!!
WE CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING WE PUT OUR MINDS TO!!!! OVER EVERY MOUNTAIN THERE IS A PATH, ALTHOUGH IT MAY NOT BE SEEN FROM THE VALLEY.
Don't let the valley get in your way, reach for the top of the mountian!
