In Their Own Words

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Odds & Ends

This little section is reserved for those little tidbits of information I know hope will be of interest to my readers. Check back often, as I plan on doing a regular update.

Ready for a good laugh? You've got to check out this website: I think its name, Crabby Old Fart, pretty much says it all!

Evangelist gets 175 years for child sex. Read about it here.

Help For DID is a powerful little video which left me feeling both wistful and hopeful. Please watch it at your discretion as it could be triggering.

Click here to read 25 Ways to Avoid Self-injury.

So many of us women have been in abusive relationships with men who demean, hit, mock, control and in general do everything in their power to whittle us down to nothing. If you are in a relationship you're not comfortable with because of any of these behaviors, You Are Not Crazy is an excellent resource providing insight for understanding your situation, and encouragement to give yourself permission to leave.

Healing the Soul has a poignant blog entry entitled Why Didn't I Tell Someone?, a story which far too many sexual abuse victims know by heart.

I love the simplicity of the collected photos and quotations found here.

Catatonic Kid has an informative article, Practical Guide to PTSD on her blog. You can check it out here.

Click here for The Layman's Guide to Multiplicity.

We go on---because it is the hard thing to do. And we owe ourselves the difficulty.(Nikki Giovanni)

Need help finding a therapist? The website for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is a good place to start. There's a whole lot of other excellent information as well that's worth checking out.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness. (Augustine)

Click here for a listing of Suicide Hotlines by state.

I found this website helpful, How MPD (DID) works: An Inside View. I'm still trying to figure out the inner workings of a (ok, my DID system) and really like how this article explains it.

Sweet suburban solitude . . .

Artistically Speaking

Miscellaneous

Ponder This

Getting Down to Basics

This is the journal I bought for my parts to communicate with one another.
I had asked if anyone wanted to help write my memoirs, and these are two of the responses I received. (Jenny is my 7 year old alter. Vava is 13, and her name is pronounced VAY'va.)
A response from Funnygal.
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This is Jenny's lament about my mother. Mrs. Homebody is our resident comforter.
A note Jenny left in the journal for Vava.
I was trying here to justify not accepting my DID diagnosis!
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Vava's note to God.
When I moved several years ago, none of my parts liked the new bedroom and were pretty much traumatized. I jotted down some of the changes they felt would make it easier for them to adjust to their new environment.
Notes from my short stint in therapy.
I jotted down a quote I could relate to from a current book I was reading, which included a character suffering from PTSD.
Someone gave me this many years ago and I taped it into the journal. I thought it was appropriate since my parts and I had spent so much time during my childhood hiding out from the step dad in my backyard fort.
This prayer of Jenny's was written in pencil, so it's hard to read. The sentence in the middle of the page reads, "I would throw my arms around you if heaven was closer to the ground."

We go on---because it is the hard thing to do. And we owe ourselves the difficulty.(Nikki Giovanni)

If the shoe slipper fits, wear it!

In Their Own Words

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