Trauma
How to Help Someone With PTSD
Supporting someone with PTSD is its own skill. Here are the scripts that work in the moment, the safety plan worth writing…
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Mental Health
Mental Health
Fawn Trauma Response: Signs, Causes, and What Helps
TL;DR Fawning is what a nervous system learns when appeasing people is the safest available option. It gets read as politeness, and…
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Mental Health
DID vs BPD: How to Tell Dissociative Identity Disorder From Borderline Personality Disorder
TL;DR The dividing line is memory, not mood. Both conditions can involve an unsteady sense of self, overwhelming emotion, and a history…
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Mental Health
Living With Dissociative Identity Disorder: Grounding, Safety Planning, and Daily Support
Living with dissociative identity disorder day to day comes down to three practical things: grounding skills you can use in under two…
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Mental Health
8 Dissociative Identity Disorder Myths: What the Research Actually Shows
Dissociative identity disorder myths survive on three things: a contested research history, decades of dramatic screen portrayals, and a symptom picture that…
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Mental Health
How Is Dissociative Identity Disorder Diagnosed?
Dissociative identity disorder is diagnosed through a clinical evaluation that combines DSM-5-TR criteria, structured interviews such as the SCID-D, and medical testing…
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Mental Health
Dissociative Identity Disorder Symptoms: Signs, Causes, and Diagnosis
Dissociative identity disorder symptoms cluster around three things: two or more distinct identity states, recurring gaps in memory that ordinary forgetting does…
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Trauma
Complex PTSD Symptoms: 17-Symptom Checklist and What to Do Next
Complex PTSD symptoms span emotion, identity, relationships, and the body. Use our 17-symptom checklist to spot patterns and learn what to do…
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Mental Health
History of Dissociative Identity Disorder — Origins, DSM Changes, and Key Cases
Explore the history of dissociative identity disorder: origins, landmark cases, DSM changes, and how clinicians understand DID today.
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