In the last days of our marriage, I opened a YouTube link sent via text from my ex-husband with the title “Dealing with Someone who Dissociates.” That someone in the video was me—more accurately, my 9-year-old part who exists as a key member of our dissociative system.
Yes, we are a person with dissociative identities and we move through life as a collective of various selves who developed in response to earlier traumas.
As our marriage began to disintegrate over the course of the previous year, my younger parts, specifically Nine and her tendency to self-injure, began getting loud again.
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