«It’s obviously borderline!» For many years I lived with the label of a borderline patient, just because I had frequent mood swings and hurt myself — I was even diagnosed with an “extended version” of borderline due to additional dissociative episodes and acoustic hallucinations. But somehow I was never really…

Welcome back to my blog “Be Many!” that addresses issues around mental illness, particularly dissociative identity disorder (DID, syn: multiple personality disorder). Today I will continue my series “Series: being many in just one day” in which I tell stories about my daily struggle living with DID. In this way…

Was it coincidence? Or fate? Just a few weeks before I was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, the Netflix film “Split”, which was released in 2016, caught my attention on the internet. You don’t know what it’s about? I’ll give you a short summary: A man kidnaps three young girls…

Welcome back to “Be Many!”! Today I’m going to introduce you to a symptom of dissociative identity disorder (DID) — depersonalisation. It can also occur in other psychiatric conditions such as anxiety disorders or depression, in physical illness or as a disorder in its own right. About 2% of people…

As I mentioned in previous posts, living with dissociative identity disorder (DID, syn: multiple personality disorder) seems terrifying and challenging at first sight -and, it is! The frequent memory lapses, mood swings and self-injuries tug at the nerves of oneself and of people in close vicinity. A central part of…

Rarely have I heard words in connection with mental health more often than “resilience” or “coping”. These words are used almost inflationarily in the media these days — all the more so in times of pandemics, when the mental health of the population is increasingly suffering. Bookstores are literally flooded…

Welcome back to my blog “Be Many!” that covers topics surrounding dissociative identity disorder (DID, syn: multiple personality disorder). Today I will continue my series that deals with perspectives of different ego-states (“personalities”). In it I describe a typical day/situation from the view of a single ego-state. These articles are…

“Be Many!” is back — this time with a new story that nicely highlights an issue with dissociative identity disorder (DID, syn: multiple personality) — the social scorn associated with visible self-injury. I know — it’s another uncomfortable topic I’m bringing up. I experience things almost daily that are extremely…

My last conscious memory was of lunch at home. It follows: Nothing! The next thing I consciously perceive is the hustle and bustle of an intensive care unit in a hospital. What happened? I’m lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to surveillance monitors, asking a nurse what’s wrong with…