Articles
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When a New Alter Comes Forward: A Husband's Guide to Meeting Your Wife's Parts
When an alter comes forward, you don't get a warning. One moment she's there. The next, someone new is present. Here is what to do in those moments.
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How a DID System Works
When trauma interrupts development, the parts never merge. They coexist without becoming one. An animation of a DID system seen from the inside.
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What Is DID? An Animated Explainer
As a child develops, the parts of a personality normally merge into one self. Trauma interrupts that. An animation of what that looks like, and why.
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Medication and DID: What Prescribers and Patients Need to Know
There is no FDA-approved medication for DID. A registered pharmacist on what medication can and cannot do, and the benzodiazepine problem.
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OSDD vs. DID: Understanding the Clinical Distinction
OSDD is diagnosed more often than DID and often underestimated. The clinical distinction, why the line shifts, and what it means for treatment.
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The Trauma Connection: Childhood Abuse, ACE Scores, and How Dissociation Develops
What the Adverse Childhood Experiences research tells us about trauma prevalence, and why DID cannot be clinically rare if childhood abuse is not.
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Assessing for Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Clinical Guide
A practical overview of the screening tools and clinical sequence that support accurate DID diagnosis, including the DES, SCID-D, DDIS, and MID.
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When DID Looks Like Something Else: BPD, Schizophrenia, and ADHD
How DID is misclassified inside more familiar diagnoses, and what distinguishes it from BPD, schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and ADHD.
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The Math Nobody in Psychiatry Wants to Do: How Many Americans Are Living with Undiagnosed DID?
Conservative estimates suggest 1.5 million Americans are living with undiagnosed DID. The math is not complicated. The willingness to do it is.
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Regulating Yourself First: Why Your Nervous System Is the Variable You Control
You cannot regulate her nervous system. You can only regulate your own, and change the environment hers has to respond to. That is the active part.