Significant Other

Have you ever heard the term, “Just like riding a bike”? The meaning behind this expression is that once you have learned to ride a bike, you really never forget how.   As a musician, you may get rusty, but if you have ever learned to play an instrument, you will always remember how to play it. Or think about the last time a sound of a bird or the smell of food took you back to some place and time. This is the same concept with body memories from abuse. Your body, remembers everything from sounds, smells, touches, tastes and most significantly abuse. The memories are held in your body connected with some memory inside your mind. As a survivor of abuse, you, or your loved one may have been too young to remember certain things consciously, but the body still holds that memory. As someone with DID, you or your loved one, may have dissociated and so have no conscious memory of the event while your body does. Maybe a alter remembers but has locked it away in a deep dark cella...

In an ongoing agenda of the Hollywood making, we find movies which seem to serve only to trivialize the reality of some devastating issues in this world. For instance, “Eyes Wide Shut”, portraits the sick and twisted privileged world of power and lust acting out twisted fantasy. It’s real! ‘Split’ on the other hand portraits DID as a series of homicidal, psychotic episodes expressed through multiple personalities. Split is a total distortion of the truth. It’s no wonder that society has become so desensitized to the true nature of what might actually be going on around us. Movies, like the Jason Bourne series, the Manchurian Candidate and The Long Kiss Goodnight, make for great entertainment. But is that all they are? The main characters in these movies display something known as a psychogenic disorder called “Dissociative Fugue”. In each of these stories, a person was subjected to some type of programming that put them in an amnesic state. This state is characterized by...