Unlike other well-known books on dissociation that made us feel lost, icky & afraid of ourselves, this one is regulating our nervous system as we read and find familiarity & validation in it's pages. Kinda like a voice whispering "you're all okay" over & over. Thanks Dr. Jamie+ Marich (she/they)

i almost went with this version !!

how do you serve cunt in a dissociative way?

ANYONE can become disabled at any moment. fighting ableism & making the world more accessible & safe is a benefit to literally everyone. abled body people should care about disabled folks & want a safer & more accessible world regardless, but they never do until it affects them.

You don’t support trans people if you revoke support from us based on what sexuality labels we choose to use to describe ourselves. If your support is dependent on us conforming to your norms about what gendered language we’re allowed to call ourselves, you’re a transphobe.

Do you want to know what’s a huge indication that someone isn’t genuinely interested in you? They’re not genuinely interested IN you. They don’t ask questions about you or your life. They’re not curious about you. At all. They don’t care to ask because they don’t care about you.

on my 'i don't have DID' drip again

The problem isn’t that the survivor is ‘holding on to anger’ - the problem is that everyone else is not angry they were hurt.

protectors will be like 'im going to be nice about this' before they start saying the most confrontational 'if I could tear you limb from limb I would' shit in a very measured voice you've ever heard in your entire life

Just a quick message to any of your mates that are feeling depressed... Don’t fucking ply them with alcohol, don't give them a line, you might think you're helping but you really aren't. Because when the parties over, they then have to sit alone in their own thoughts and

it is not attention seeking for people to openly speak about their mental health struggles

'whats having DID like' sometimes other parts of my brain literally snitch on me to my therapist if I'm not doing too well or they think that I'm not addressing something I need to

Everyone's supportive of PTSD until the symptoms show up.

1st rule of abusive parents is that no matter what they do, they are never unreasonable, every ounce of hurt they inflict on you warranted. 2nd rule of abusive parents is that any amount of disagreement with this arrangement is to be met with you being the unreasonable one

It's common for trauma survivors who were gaslit, verbally abused, or conversationally bullied growing up to prefer to communicate via texts or emails instead of talking-- because we can look back over what we & the other person ACTUALLY said, as many times as we need to.

Having a disorder that affects my memory be like

It's always so heartbreaking when someone is alive and asking for help. They get little to no help. But once they're gone, people want to rally to help them. What I'm saying is don't wait till someone is dead to help. There are lives that can be saved right now.

its always kinda difficult giving people advice about telling others about ur OSDDID bc on one hand it can back fire but what many people aren't actually prepared for is the fact that no one actually cares about your brain and what goes on inside it as much as you do