Reddit reviews Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach (Relational Perspectives Book Series 49)

I'm sorry for your experiences, and I hope you find peace in healing now. It's a really interesting but very difficult topic to explain, and I'm genuinely sorry if I made a lot of typos, I'm currently running on only a couple of hours sleep, and a very foggy brain, so I expect it's a quite jumbled though I did try to proof read it! And it is very long too (though before the proofread it was a couple of pages longer and a lot less sensical).

I didn't mean it in a bad way, I just hope that by answering you it may help you as well as others. After I was diagnosed, my therapy terminated for other reasons, plus I think my therapist didn't have the answers I was looking for. So I spent a huge amount of money on investing in different books, some I've read and some I'm still reading, from so many different backgrounds. A lot of what I wrote was paraphrased from different books, but predominantly from this one (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Treating-Dissociative-Identity-Disorder-ebook/dp/B007NYFJZW/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=Understanding+dissociative+identity+disorder&qid=1569369921&s=gateway&sr=8-3), which had a lot of info on both the formation of DID, as well as clinical and real life history of DID (and its previous names during understanding of it) throughout history. It's a fascinating read but it seemed to paint such a clear history, awareness and understanding of DID that I'm genuinely surprised that some still debate its reality. I wished when I was reading that, that the information I learned was more easily accessible (and affordable) as though it could be misused by some, it really helped me be able to connect a little internally and improve my outlook on so much of what I was experiencing. It was also useful to explain so much of what I'd been invalidating myself with. So I over share! One time I typed up a huge chapter word for word from the book and posted it somewhere online.

I had never heard of attachment, or heard about examples of ways that could affect an infant so profoundly that weren't directly due to horrific people, it was able to help me come more to terms with both "good" and bad experiences in my childhood I'd been invalidating myself and various Parts over and I was able to accept them a little better. So I really am glad it was of any use. Though it really is a little down to "just" differences between personal abilities to survive/cope, which I hate because there's nothing concrete or logical about it, but it is what it is. Maybe one day I'll learn something else that will make more sense from another book. I really hope so.

:)