Four Self-Help Books for DID
Four recommended books for DID recovery—helpful with or without a therapist. Learn skills, reduce chaos, and build progress between therapy sessions.
Unrecognized Trauma Memories
Most trauma memories are nonverbal. Learn how unrecognized trauma memories appear as feelings, body sensations, or impulses and why identifying them matters.
Another Way to Figure Out Your Parts
This video builds on the previous overview of system parts by breaking down emotional parts (EPs) into seven common subtypes. Each type—fight, flight, fear, shame, needy, perpetrator-imitating, and helper—developed to protect the system in different ways. Understanding these categories can make your system feel less confusing and open the door to greater self-compassion.
What Being Triggered Actually Is
Your sense of smell is deeply tied to memory and emotion. Because it connects directly to the brain’s fear center, it can trigger flashbacks—but it can also stop them in their tracks. This video shares how to use scent as a grounding tool for DID or trauma-related flashbacks.
This Sense Can Interrupt Flashbacks
https://youtu.be/5ixP4TjxAuA One of your senses transmits its sensory information directly to your amygdala. Because of this, this sense is the quickest trigger for flashbacks. This sense is also the quickest…
Doubts About Having DID/OSDD
This video explores one of the most common fears for people with DID or OSDD: “If I don’t remember the trauma, how can this be real?” You’ll learn how trauma affects memory storage, why nonverbal memories matter, and why the absence of clear memories doesn’t mean the absence of trauma.
Necessary for Recovery
Safety is the key condition for recovery from DID and complex trauma. Without safe living circumstances, the nervous system stays in survival mode, protectors won’t let go of old strategies, and healing stalls. This video explains why unsafe environments make recovery so difficult and why finding safety is the first step on the healing journey.
A Risk Factor for DID and OSDD
DID doesn’t arise by chance. One of the most important circumstances that shapes it is the experience of scared or scary caretakers. This video explains why caretakers are so critical for babies, how unpredictable or unsafe caretakers create a no-win survival dilemma, and how dissociation and parts can develop as a way to cope.
A Model to Help You Better Understand Your System
This video introduces the Structural Dissociation model as a beginner-friendly way to understand your system. All alters fit into one of two categories: everyday life alters who manage daily living, and emotional parts who hold trauma defenses. Using this model can make a confusing system feel more understandable and less overwhelming.
Five Steps to Unblending
What is blending? It’s when another part’s feelings, thoughts, or urges spill into your own experience. This video explains Dr. Janina Fisher’s five-step method for unblending, so you can create gentle separation and respond with more stability and care for your parts.