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about my goals and site purpose

what do you believe?

i feel very strongly about the humanisation of the mentally ill and our rights to respect, understanding, and effective medical treatment.

i believe the system of psychiatry^(*) should be engaged with critically, and that in particular there should be a greater recognition that mental illnesses and how they are communicated are socially constructed and intrinsically imperfect.

almost all of my commentary is concerned with the depiction of DID. as such, i have personal strong opinions on what DID, specifically, 'is'.

i believe us who have been studied under this label are, first and foremost, human beings that deserve respect, autonomy, and access to care.

while those of us that qualify for a DID diagnosis are, fundamentally, suffering and disabled by our symptoms and traumatic experiences in an incredibly isolating way, i also believe that the symptoms we experience are not uncommon in isolation, and are also completely understandable and rational post-traumatic, dissociative, and human responses to our histories. i believe that, because of this, almost anybody can 'relate' to and empathise with elements and principles of our experience (albeit likely to a less disabling degree), and that they should, as a way to combat the 'othering' of mentally ill people that often leads to stigma, invisibility, and abuse.

beyond DID although related to its social perception, i also believe in the de-pathologisation of multiplicity, including raising awareness that expressing, experiencing, or seeing yourself as a system of multiple sub-selves is not inherently disordered. i believe applying a 'multiple' model to your own internal workings is a valid vehicle for self-expression and understanding, regardless of your history, and that if you find it helpful there is no reason not to. i think all humans are wonderful and complex, and making the experience of identifying this way 'exclusive' to DID is reductive to the complexity of the human personality, and also alienates people with DID, making it out that a manner of identifying often adopted by us is somehow fundamentally different to how anybody else exists, when it is not.

all these beliefs and areas of criticism i operate under inform my advocacy and fuel the work i create and share with others.

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why do you do what you do on your site?

i'm more than aware that a certain mysticism and pervasive 'otherness' surrounds the idea of DID and those who have it.

the social consequence of this reputation is an en-masse misunderstanding of what the condition really entails, recurrent questions of its validity as a mental disorder, and a pervasive public ignorance of its legitimacy as an understandable, grounded human experience. the material consequence of these aspects is a large amount of social stigma, a lack of accessible and effective care, and a certain abusive fetish in some for sensationalised ideas around the multiple personality.

i think demystifying DID — making the topic less exclusive, making the topic less jargon-esque, encouraging humanisation and identification with elements of our experiences — is vital for lowering the bar for discussions of what we are shown and told about the condition. i think open dialogue and communication about what we understand and how we come to understand others is crucial for combatting the sense of spectacle that surrounds DID symptoms, prevents certain kinds of abuse and neglect we face as undiagnosed or fetishised trauma survivors, and encourages progressive, humanising research and resources to be made to help those who suffer from it.

through my work, i hope to deconstruct how DID is signified across various communcations, to illuminate the tropes that muddy its depiction, analyse how its wider social understandings have developed, and consider what elements and perspectives on this human experience rarely sees light. i hope to help others approach DID and its depiction with a greater understanding of the social and medical contexts of the disorder, and be able to hold its portrayals against a knowledge of the real, human experiences that are experienced by those who exist under this label.

i want to help us with DID be seen, humanised, respected, and understood. and while i'm no psychiatric expert, no influential public figure, still i hope i can do some good.

-- Last Updated (29/11/2025).