Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Articles

Afraid to Ask Therapist What’s Wrong with Me

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, May 21st, 2012
I'm not sure what is wrong with me, and I'm too scared to ask my therapist. I need a bit of help. No matter how hard I've looked, I can't find anyone who has the same sort of issues as me. Last year I sort ...
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Who Can I Trust to Help?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
The hallucinations are starting up again. The more stress the more I'm declining. 2 little girls are drawing and playing on my sidewalk outside my door, and I can't stop thinking they're evil. Every little out of place noise makes me jump and my skin ...
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Not Sure Who I Am Anymore

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Hello, I am not so different from my peers in many ways, but now it feels like I'm an entirely different person on the inside. I came from a middle-class family, got good grades and worked really hard. I was accepted to my dream ...
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Child’s Father Possibly is Dangerous

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
He and I have been together on and off for 3 years. During this time, he has told me that he sees ghosts, used to be in a cult(the stories are absolutely unbelievable), and that he has another personality. Most of this, I have just ...
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Am I Special or Crazy?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Now I'm starting to think I'm just crazy: I'm 20 years old and I find myself losing touch with the world more and more each day. All throughout my life I've always known I was different. Growing up, I understood things the other kids ...
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Schizophrenic Mom is too Controlling

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, February 19th, 2012
I want to take this girl to prom but am afraid of my mom's response. I am a senior in high school who lives with his mother. About 8 years ago after my parents divorced my mom began to change in behavior in terms ...
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Is My Husband Mentally Ill?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, February 17th, 2012
I think my husband is suffering from a mental disorder or schizophrenia. We have been married for 3 years and have 3children 2 being 8 month old twins. We got into a fight and the first time in 5 years i walked out and lefted. ...
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Do I Have Dissociative/Multiple Personality Disorder?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
I have recently become concerned with my mental health. I am twenty-one, and I realize that this is an age where people begin to often experience their psychosis, so I need to ask, am I losing it? As far as my history goes, my father ...
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Hearing Voices

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Uhh. I'm 13 and I I will sound crazy, but I'm serious here. You know the phrase 'train of thought'? Well, it needs a track if it's a train. So my whole life there were two tracks of thought, mine & a narrator (stupid things ...
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Family Thinks I Am Schizophrenic

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, January 26th, 2012
I have lived with depression/social anxiety and selective-mutism for the past 4-5 years. I recently had my sister express her concern for my mental health. She begged me to seek help. I engage in cutting, overdosing, starvation. I have cut since the age of 14 and ...
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Teen Feels “Different”

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
I am 14 years old, I am female, and I have known I was different ever since I was about seven years old. When I was seven, these "voices" started talking in my head. I didn't know any different, but what they were saying scared ...
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Concerned About Voices & Things I’m Seeing

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Not sure whether to seek professional help. I'm a mess, I'm actually finding it difficult to talk to people, because I'm scared of how they'll react. I'm scared of them thinking I'm a freak, or the polar opposite.. that I'm attention seeking or being dramatic. I ...
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