Category: Mental Health & Psychology
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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…
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Survival, Rejection, and Dignity: A Dalit–Queer–Disabled Feminist Intervention into Intimacy, Power, and Emotional Life
Article by Dr. Vaishali Sonavane Abstract This article develops a Dalit–Queer–Disabled feminist framework to understand survival, rejection, and relational harm as structurally produced conditions rather than individual failures. Drawing from Ambedkarite anti-caste movement, queer and disabled feminist scholarship, trauma and attachment theory, and critical theories of power, the paper examines how caste, gender, sexuality, disability,…
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Integrated Theoretical and Methodological FrameworkPositioning Caste-Based Survival Within Contemporary Trauma Theory
Abstract Contemporary trauma frameworks, such as complex trauma, Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS), and Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD), have established that psychological distress may arise from prolonged and repeated exposure to harm rather than discrete events. However, these models remain insufficiently theorised in relation to social structures that systematically organise exposure to…
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When Rejection Becomes Self‑Betrayal
Unpacking the Trauma Trigger and the Path to Alchemical Healing If this feels familiar, you are not broken When someone hates, ridicules, neglects, rejects, demotivates, devalues, disrespects, disconnects, withdraws, becomes difficult, or punishes you for no visible reason, the pain is not only interpersonal. Something deeper happens inside. You don’t just feel hurt — you…
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The Loop Where We Know Better — But Still Do What Hurts
A compassionate guide to the state where insight exists, but freedom feels out of reach There is a quiet, tender kind of suffering that many people struggle to put into words. This is not the pain of not knowing, but the ache of knowing clearly—and still finding yourself drawn back into the very things you…