For the final day of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, I'll be sharing several pieces written by people living with dissociative identity disorder: a highly stigmatised and misunderstood diagnosis that, unlike anxiety and depression, people rarely feel able to open up about. DID is caused by chronic, repeated trauma in early childhood. The trauma can be physical, emotional, sexual and/or a combination of all three in nature with the perpetrator/s often a child's caregiver/s (parents, relatives, carers...) More about it here: traumadissociation.com/dissociativeid…