Category: Conditions under Survival
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Healing, Survival, and the Path to Ease
Reclaiming Worthiness Beyond Titles and Trauma By Dr Vaishali Sonavane This morning I woke up with that same notion—and a choking, suffocating feeling of being unworthy, undeserving, unwanted, denied, rejected, reduced, and refused. I was in pain. I started feeling anxious—for no apparent reason. This has been there since I can remember. This is the…
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A Trauma-Informed, Attachment-Based Guide for People Living with DID — and for Those Living Alongside Them
Article by Dr. Vaishali Sonavane Abstract Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is among the most misunderstood trauma-related conditions. Frequently sensationalised, minimised, or mischaracterised as manipulation or pathology, DID is in fact an adaptive survival response to overwhelming and inescapable developmental trauma, most often occurring in early childhood. Many people live for decades with DID without language…