DID 101

  • What is DID?
  • IFS and dissociative parts
  • How our understanding of trauma and dissociation changed
  • Understanding Denial and Avoidance
  • Causes and development
  • Diagnosis and assessment

Treatment & recovery

  • Treatment overview

Therapy guides

  • Finding a DID-informed therapist

Reviews

  • Study review: Better is not the same as finished
  • Can DID symptoms go dormant and return later?

Myths

  • Myth: DID requires extreme trauma
  • Myth: DID is fake or only exists in one culture
  • Myth: DID is always obvious
  • Myth: People with DID are dangerous
  • Myth: Partial DID is the same as OSDD
  • Myth: DID requires amnesia between parts
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DID 101

A plain-language introduction to what DID is, how it can present, and how clinicians assess it.

What is DID?

How DID can affect identity, memory, control, and a person's sense of self.

IFS and dissociative parts

IFS and DID both use the word parts, but they aren't describing the same experience. A therapist needs to know what changes when amnesia is involved.

How our understanding of trauma and dissociation changed

People have described dissociation for a long time. What kept changing was the explanation for it.

Understanding Denial and Avoidance

Why doubt can feel convincing, how clinicians understand avoidance, and what it has felt like for one person.

Causes and development

How trauma, attachment, and a child's developing memory and sense of self may come together in DID.

Diagnosis and assessment

What a DID assessment may involve, from one missing conversation to structured interviews and differential diagnosis.

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General education only, not medical advice or emergency support.