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Oct 2, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Please RT! A free resource about Dissociative Identity Disorder thanks to @firingthemind. Talks combining lived experience alongside professionals in the field of #DissociativeDisorders are hard to come by! via @YouTube #TherapistsConnect #dissociatwt #DID
A recording of the live webinar featuring Gill Frost, Valerie Sinason, Amanda Ball, and Alf McFarland, held on Wednesday 30 June 2021.

For anyone who is a survivor of abuse or trauma, please take care when viewing this video as some content may be triggering.

Event information;
DID – or dissociative identity disorder – is a little-known and widely misunderstood condition, even within the medical and therapeutic professions. Any scant knowledge amongst the public comes mostly from poorly researched or sensationalist films or television series.
Yet, research figures imply that there could be more people with DID than schizophrenia in Britain. So, why is it that DID remains hidden from public awareness?
Phoenix Publishing House brought together an expert panel to discuss this conundrum.
Gill Frost is the author of 'The Girls Within: A True Story of Triumph over Trauma and Abuse'. A story of Gill’s client ‘Vivian’ & her therapy journey. The book is a step on Gill’s path to raising awareness & understanding of #DID & acted as a catalyst for the event.
Alongside Gill, is Dr Valerie Sinason, world renowned in the field and ourselves - the ETERNITY system bringing the very important perspective of what it’s like to live with #DID.
Jungian Psychotherapist Alf McFarland who was Gill’s clinical Supervisor during her time with ‘Vivian’, kept things on track. We had a huge number of participants with a lively Q & A session. In fact there were so many answered questions we will be releasing a follow up webcast!
If you haven’t already listened to the webinar recording, please do. It covers topics such as; What is DID, why is so little known, what can we all do to change this. Our aim is to reduce the stigma through asserting facts to rebut the myths! We need your help - share & advocate!
The follow up Webcast will cover the themes that arose in the hundreds of questions posed at the live event. Such as spotting dissociative symptoms,
how Gill engaged with alternate identities, how MeWe manage daily life and we also cover ‘taboo’ topics that are often avoided…
Such as boundaries when working with #DID clients, desirable qualities in therapists and how (safe) love and care plays an important part in the therapeutic relationship.
Ourselves and @firingthemind will be sharing the Webcast on #worldmentalhealthday2021 which will be hosted on their YouTube channel.
Please also head over to Gill’s website to find out more about #DID and ‘The Girls Within’ gillfrost.co.uk
And here is the link to the follow up webcast bit.ly/3FoTBYh
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Jun 13, 2023
We can’t imagine how it must feel for those who have long term serious physical disabilities to live with alongside a serious MH condition. We are constantly plagued with injuries, illness, inflammation, skin conditions etc and it adds another layer on to trying to survive. #DID
We try when we have enough energy to keep physically fit through running. Also it’s one of our few opportunities for social connection as part of a club. We try to do as much as we can to cross & strength train, we warm up/cool down and do everything ‘right’ but still get injured
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Hey #Dissociatwt we are reaching out more than normal and do appreciate your help. Bear with us on this thread. We get confused about how to approach/the difference between ‘grounding’ (to shift body/mind/emotions/sensations) and just distracting/other dissociative ‘skills’.
For example fear is rising in us and ‘I’ know which part of me it’s from because the time of year / weather & other factors means our mind is heading off down a flashback route. In a way we need to sit with it and say we are safe/ground/ allow feelings but it’s JUST TOO MUCH.
So ‘I’ will distract and move and do stuff to parcel it off and I will also (by doing stuff like this and talking in our head) let that part know I know how she is feeling. But really I know she needs to let the flashback happen and all of learn we can survive it.
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TW…ideation
How do people cope when thoughts are prevalent but there is the also despair of knowing we’d not carry out? We’ve a fear of hurting people (so some might say that’s a ‘protective factor’) &/or messing it up BUT then we feel trapped by the thought we have no way out.
And just to add, we bought this book for ourselves from @SuicideCrisis but for some reason we are ‘banned’ (by selves?) from reading it. Image
& another thing. When is a crisis a crisis? We’ve never phoned NHS crisis team as despite offering training, it’s never been taken up. No surprises there 🙄if there’s no guaranteed treatment pathway they’re unlikely to train staff in a ‘condition’ that’s not commissioned #DID 😩
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🧵 Living and exercising with #DID #ukrunchat
3 weeks ago we pushed the pace whilst out running. Hadn’t done any speed work or hills etc for months as was too worried about my injury prone body. Had several months of steady miles & strength training under my belt & felt ready.
My head was beyond full from everything we are managing - marriage breakdown, prospect of moving home, menopause and of course living with #DissociativeIdentityDisorder - The symptoms for which are just so vast and debilitating that we are too exhausted to try and explain.
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That Saturday morning we NEEDED to run hard. Had our mind set on max perceived effort, an out and back of 20 mins each way & ran alongside an experienced and fast runner. So this is where the ability to dissociate becomes dangerous and some might say was an act of #SelfHarm
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A 🧵 This #DIDAwarnessDay MeWe have some news to share. Since last October a small volunteer group, including ourselves, have been working hard to prepare for starting a charity for and by people with dissociative disorders, their supporters and professionals working in the field
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Once established as a UK Charity we want to;

* Improve access to appropriate and effective support and care
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Hey #Dissociatwt We had one of the most terrifying somatoform symptoms last night, possibly after a trauma dream but it’s all foggy. We could feel our legs but could not feel the outsides of our skin on our top half but we were able to move our limbs. At the same time the inside
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