From Amber to Astra: Our Journey to a Collective Name.
Naming isn’t easy when we have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). For us, names carry layers of meaning and complexity that mirror our...
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Here are articles that we have either written or shared on behalf of others. If you've written something about DID you'd like us to share, get in touch.
Vir VSys
Sep 285 min read
System Discovery: Vir VSys's Journey.
It’s been a while since we’ve shared somebody else’s story, so we were so happy when our recent YouTube video about our system discovery...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 299 min read
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - I: Who is the ‘I’ in DID?
Dive into the complex world of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Explore fragmented identities and the language challenges we face.
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 2412 min read
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - H for Healing and Hiatuses
By Mia and Berlou Healing hiatus A break from the past’s pains pull Moments of respite Just over a week ago we thought we were doing...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 159 min read
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - G for Grief
By Mia Grief is a universal human experience and is a complex emotional response to loss, and can encompass a range of emotions such as...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 136 min read
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - F for Fronting and Forgetting
By Mia and Berlou The criteria for dissociative identity disorder includes having two or more distinct identity states within one...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 116 min read
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - E for Existing
By Berlou We haven’t had loads of ideas for E, we considered emotions but realised we could talk a lot about existing… However, since we...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 93 min read
Shared Story: Fictives, Doubts and Acceptance.
We’re honoured to be sharing a submitted story by the iKandi Ravers, here Edgar speaks candidly about their experiences of being a...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 97 min read
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - D for Diagnosis
By Mia and Berlou We thought we’d write about dissociation for ‘D’, but as we’ve come to do it we changed our minds and will be writing...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 89 min read
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - C for Change.
We’re already really behind with this challenge because we have limited spoons and things keep happening that consume energy and...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 53 min read
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - B for Berlou
By Mia. We aren’t just going to write about ourselves, honestly! But it’s starting that way, and C will maybe be Caris, consciousness,...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 23 min read
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - A for Amber.
Written by Mia and Berlou. Our plan yesterday was to start doing the online journaling course we signed up for last week to keep our...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Mar 315 min read
Our selfs-driven writing challenge: reflection and integration.
Written by Berlou We’ve been feeling stuck about our writing and healing for some time now. After our system was revealed, we descended...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Feb 94 min read
Another Failure: ‘The Blanket’.
We’ve been quiet here for ages… So many blog posts have been started or thought about but we’ve been stuck in a rut of not doing...
The Patronus System
Sep 8, 20232 min read
(Are you under the impression you are awake right now?) by The Patronus System
We're honoured to share a poem about being homeless in a home, and the love of fiction by the Patronus System. Please get in touch if you...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Jul 26, 20239 min read
RIP HYC
This will be written by me, Amber, but I’m not just me at the moment and Mia has been ‘running the show’ for months because I can’t, or...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Jul 12, 20234 min read
Being an artist for us is having the opportunity to let our soul feel...
We're so happy to be sharing art and writing from SomoS TID. They're a partial DID System from Puerto Rico who have been using their art...
FragmentDID
Jul 5, 20234 min read
Trusting the System
It’s incredibly difficult to live with a mental illness, and also be extremely self aware. I am perhaps too aware of self (although my...
FragmentDID
Jun 23, 20233 min read
Meet the Crew
Now that we’ve given a brief introduction to who we are as a system, I supposed I should introduce who some of our main peeps are. These...
FragmentDID
Jun 16, 20234 min read
Let Us Introduce Ourselves
We are so grateful to DID.we.write for allowing us a space to share our voice. We first met through Instagram, and I’m not sure how, but...
Chameleon Girl Tribe
Jun 5, 20233 min read
Chameleon Girl Tribe Art and Story
We are thrilled to be sharing art and writing from the incredibly talented artist, Chameleon Girl Tribe. Chameleon Girl Tribe share their...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 27, 20237 min read
Processing persecutors - our experiences with Kai.
This is an excerpt from our book, The revelation. We've not found many persecutors in our system, Kai was the main one that we met and...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Apr 21, 20236 min read
Finally, some good news for Mia.
My name is Amber, I’m the host of our system, and I have our body’s name. I don’t write much, there’s a joke within our system that I...
Amber Louise Ainsworth
Jan 6, 20239 min read
For us, depression was a symptom, not the condition.
Our host, Amber, has always struggled with depression and anxiety - usually without ever understanding why. We remember when she first...
Tuesday System
Jan 3, 20233 min read
Dissociative Identity Disorder and Brain Structure
Research on systems is limited and often focuses solely on DID. This is just a summary of some articles we read and not a complete...
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