Hello, welcome to my site! This is a little bit about who we are :)
I have been diagnosed as a multiple for 17 years. The official name is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) formally know as Multiple personality disorder.(MPD)
It is a very challenging way to live and I struggle to cope with life. I have a great support team that includes my kids, my mental health workers and my therapist.
I am not crazy even though some narrow minded people would say I was. DID is a coping mechanism that got me through my childhood and still helps me today.
I have about 52 'Others' living with me. They range from toddlers to old people, male and female, hetro and gay.
We would never want to be integrated as we would view that as murder.
We do our best to live with each other, but as with most families, we fall out and argue!
It is hard work and I couldn't cope without help, but I'm doing the best I can by living my life and trying to contribute to society.
I've built this site as a resource for multiples and their families.It is a work in progress so please keep checking in as I'm adding new stuff all the time.
Not a lot is known about DID in the UK so I'm hoping this will be a place for people to come and find out more.
If you have been newly diagnosed then well done, you must have found a great therapist, or psychiatrist!
I hope that my site will be a tool you can use in your journey towards healing!
I also run a yahoo group called Amongst Ourselves, the link is opposite. If you need some online support from other multiples then that's the place to be :)
There may be some triggering material for multiples on this site.
Please procede with caution and take care!
The Crystal Gazer.
by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
I shall gather myself into my self again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent.
Watching the future come and the present go-
And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.
