A Couple of Multiples: The Reality of Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
There’s never a dull moment for hosts, Drew and Garden System, who are a couple that have both been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. While they are navigating their healing journey, they continue to manage full time careers, raise four teenagers and a house full of pets. Not only do they aim to speak to people who have lived experience with DID and their supporters, but also therapists and anyone who wants to learn more. The podcast talks about Dissociative Identity Disorder in a way that someone who knows nothing about DID will be able to understand, and at the same time is designed to be a resource for therapists, while supporting and validating those with lived experience. Dissociative Identity Disorder is a highly stigmatized mental health diagnosis that has been subject to many myths and misinformation over the years. These myths, along with highly-sensationalized media portrayals, have led to many who still believe this disorder is not real and simply created by therapists who impose themselves on highly suggestible clients. The goal of the podcast is to dispel these myths and educate the world at large the truth about Dissociative Identity Disorder, and the reality of what having this diagnosis really looks like. The brain had to find a unique way to cope in order to survive the trauma people with DID faced from a very young age. Also, this condition is not rare, although many reputable sources still cite it as such. People with DID are ordinary members in your community that you might encounter in your daily life. Drew and Garden System want to shed light on the challenging symptoms people with DID face and share how they have overcome those challenges and found the gifts of joy that all of their parts bring to each other.
Great show on a professional and personal level
7月10日
This podcast has helped me as I am newly diagnosed with DID. The hosts of the podcasts both have helped me navigate on a personal level and has made me feel so validated. There is so much good info on here professionally and on a personal journey from their prospectives with their experiences living with DID. Highly recommend. And thank you for giving us your time to help me and mine understand the ins and outs of DID. We appreciate you.
We love this show!
6月21日
Thank you so much for this honest and non-pathologized podcast! We love hearing a neurodiversity-affirming approach to plurality. It’s such a gift to have all of us feel seen and validated by your shares.
Recently diagnosed
4月14日
I was and currently am struggling to face this new way of understanding myself. Even though I “know” it’s true, it’s a painful process to “refile” my perceptions and bring parts of me to the surface. I am so appreciative of this podcast and the two of you. It’s normalizing my experience and helping me reframe my experiences on what I am coming to understand as “parts”. Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing your parts with mine 🥰 It is healing and helpful.
This has made me a podcast lover!
3月21日
As a therapist and person living with DID, this podcast has been just what I needed to not only grow in my own continued healing and knowledge of DID, but to offer an additional tool to my clients. One of my clients is listening and found answers for one problem that has plagued her for her entire life, so we are talking through solutions. Hearing from a couple with lived experience has been so much more helpful than reading books from authors who make some valid points but can never fully understand/explain.
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- 創作者Drew & Garden System
- 活躍年代2024年
- 集數27
- 年齡分級兒少不宜
- 版權© 2024 A Couple of Multiples: The Reality of Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
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