My Dissociative Identity Disorder Diagnosis

Encina Severa, has spoken to MedCircle host, Kyle Kittleson, before about living with Dissociative Identity Disorder aka DID. In this video, she goes further into her lived experience and addresses the trauma she faced in childhood and what it was like growing up with undiagnosed DID (formerly known as multiple personality disorder aka MPD.) She even explains the first time she realized she had multiple personalities AKA alters.

Cooccurring disorders are very common when it comes to mental illness. Encina describes how she also faced depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD (cPTSD), a panic attack, and more.

00:00 Intro
00:49 Working with dissociative identity disorder
03:03 What undiagnosed DID symptoms feel like
04:57 How Encina's DID was diagnosed
06:45 How Encina communicates with alters
11:07 Encina's co-occurring mental health disorders
12:54 The early childhood trauma that caused DID
13:41 Medicine & therapy that did & didn't work
17:14 The healing process today
21:00 Coping with panic attacks & anxiety
22:56 ADHD, OCD, and PMDD
25:29 DID vs borderline personality disorder

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