Wow, a TWIM Award

Wow, great, I won in the category best autistic spectrum disorder blogger at the Mental Nurse TWIM Awards 2010. Winners are entitled to display a shiney thingy on their blogs, but I don’t know how to do that. So, without shiney thingies, here I acknowledge I have won. Congratulations to all the other winners and [...]

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Announcement: New Forum for Trauma Survivors and People with Serious Mental Illness

I have set up a new support forum for survivors of trauma and abuse and people with borderline personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, PTSD and related conditions. In order to join, you don’t need to be both a trauma survivor and have BPD or something similar – it’s okay if you fall into just one [...]

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Reminder: Blog Carnival of Mental Health

This month, CBTish will host the Blog Carnival of Mental Health. Here is the reminder to post links to your writings before the 30th of December. I hope that you all will enjoy this carnival as much as I enjoyed mine last month.

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Change in Autism Symptoms and Maladaptive Behavior after Exiting High School

I’m not quite in the mood for studying. However, I thought that, since I’ve been nominated for best autism spectrum blogger in the Mental Nurse TWIM blog awards, I’d better do an autism post for a change. This time, I’m going to review a study on a subject that is dear to my heart: the [...]

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Exploring Dissociation: Time Loss

For most of my life, even when I knew that I was multiple, I didn’t know that I lost time. In fact, I’m still not certain whether I lose enough time to qualify me for a diagnosis of DID. I lose a few minutes to an hour every now and then – it’s never days [...]

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Dissociative Fugue and Amnesia in DSM-V

In the proposed DSM-V, dissociative fugue will be removed and replaced by a subtype of dissociative amnesia. The rationale for removing dissociative fugue as a separate disorder, is that amnesia, usually for identity, is a more common feature than traveling away. Besides, the disorder is very rare and therefore does not warrant a category of [...]

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Dissociative Identity Disorder and Implicity Memory

This post could alternatively be titled “Why DID is not real, and neither is brain injury”. W.A. Wagenaar, a well-known Dutch psychologist, has a series of lectures on the topic of legal psychology. In one of them, he discusses repressed memories and multiple personality disorder. He references a study, in which people with DID, non-multiple [...]

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Exploring Dissociation: Switching

Switchin is when a person who is multiple changes personality. There may be warning signs to the switch, such as shivering, changes in breathing, or nonepileptic seizures. In our case, sometimes my breathing goes faster, but there is usually no warning sign. Sometimes I don’t notice that I’ve switched until I hear myself saying that [...]

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Blog Carnival of Mental Health: Diagnosis

Welcome to the first Blog Carnival of Mental Health. I’m a day late, but I’m going to share with you an interesting if small collection of posts. I must say that it’s rather ironic that I’m hosting a carnival on the theme of diagnosis barely a week after receiving a new diagnosis myself. Anyway, enjoy! [...]

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