Both my husband and I have DID. We have been married 15 years Oct 15. We met in a state mental hospital, both of us misdiagnosed of course. It is a challenge to work on trauma while my significant other is too. We get couples work every now and then when we are really struggling to understand one another.

Thank you for posting this. When I was 13 I was raped by a family friend, it took me a long white to recover emotionally, almost 4 years in fact. Now that I am 18 and a student in college I needed to write a paper about Trauma for a Literature class and the line “It is common for people to respond to such distressing events with three clusters of symptoms : Intrusion or re-experiencing; hyper-arousal; and constriction, numbing and avoidance. These symptoms often appear within the first days after a trauma. They usually are very intense at first but eventually subside. Sometimes, however, these reactions are delayed.” was exactly what I wanted to say. Of course I cited your work and gave you full credit, but thank you for backing up my view.