My Introduction

Hello, my name is Kelsey and I’m diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Something about me is I’ve gone through trauma all my childhood and parts of adulthood. I remember at first I felt like I had no identity and with therapy I had to learn to build one.

Since this is my first post, I want to spend some time briefly sharing my story. I got diagnosed with DID last year in 2024 by Life Stance; they are a group located in Oklahoma. The sessions were nice, but there was one instance where an alter had taken over and I couldn’t do therapy that day. I was so frustrated and somewhat scared because I began to realize I actually have the disorder.

See, when you get diagnosed with DID you don’t automatically believe it. Denial is very common. It’s a disorder nobody wants to have. All those suicide attempts are proof of it, I don’t want this disorder and neither do they. It’s why I’ve been in therapy learning how to cope and figure out my healing goals