639: Dealing with Your Darling's DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) | Feedback Friday
Mar 18, 2022
This discussion dives into the complexities of supporting a partner with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), emphasizing the importance of boundaries and self-care. The hosts explore emotional challenges faced by loved ones and provide practical tips for effective communication. They also tackle a light-hearted inquiry about reconnecting on LinkedIn with a past dating match, navigating the balance between authenticity and potential romantic undertones. This blend of serious advice and humor makes for a compelling listen.
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Supporting a Partner with DID
Encourage your girlfriend with DID to find the support she needs.
Ask her what she finds helpful or unhelpful in therapy and offer your support.
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Understanding DID
DID is a complex disorder, often arising from past trauma, where alters protect the host.
Alters can disrupt relationships, especially intimate ones, as a defense mechanism.
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Managing DID Episodes
Learn your girlfriend's triggers, such as places, smells, or people, to help her regain control.
When an alter presents, remain calm, present, and avoid arguing; explain anything missed later.
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Your significant other has DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), a mental health condition where a person has two or more separate identities. These personalities, or “alters” control the person’s behavior at different times, and each alter often has its own history, traits, likes, and dislikes. It's a very complex disorder — one that clinicians are still coming to understand — and it makes relationships quite hard. So what can you do to be supportive to your loved one as well as yourself? We'll try to find an answer to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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What can you do to empower your significant other as she struggles with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), while ensuring you're not neglecting your own needs in the process??
You never took the chance to communicate with someone you matched with on a dating app a few years back, but now you see them on LinkedIn and would like to make a networking connection. How can you do so without being awkward about it?
You're losing respect for the person you once saw as future spouse material because their tendency to procrastinate is derailing and delaying their academic and career paths and straining your finances. On top of the frustration this makes you feel, you've recently been diagnosed with bipolar II. How do you walk the line between being caring partner while also maintaining your own mental health and financial well-being?
You're only 16 years old, and your dad's work has relocated your family 10 times. You've never really settled anywhere long enough to build strong friendships or feel like you can call anywhere "home" until you arrived at your current residence. Now, it's your mother who's rallying to move again after some disagreements with the neighbors. What can you do to convince your parents to come to an agreement with the neighbors and just stay put?
Your grandmother has always been verbally and physically abusive to your mom, going as far as faking heart attacks whenever the inheritance your grandfather left behind when he passed away 30 years ago is brought up. You think the healthiest thing to do would be to cut her out of your life completely, but your mother pleads with you to maintain a connection. What's the right call here?
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