Trigger warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood physical and sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation, complex trauma, dissociation, self-harm, suicidal ideation, family violence and grief.
What happens when your mind finds a way to protect you from trauma so severe that you can't even remember much of your own childhood?
Maggie Walters is an award-winning author and mental health advocate living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder. After experiencing severe abuse throughout her childhood, Maggie developed a system of around 40 alters who helped her survive experiences she couldn't process herself. Now, through her memoirs Split and Fractured Motherhood, Maggie is challenging the stigma surrounding DID, sharing what life is really like with the condition, and exploring how she has worked to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma while raising her three children.
In this episode she shares:
Key Quotes
"I don't have a mental disorder. I created an amazingly- creative coping mechanism in order to survive horrific circumstances."
"I'm standing here because of who I am. Not in spite of who I am."
"I just want people to know that when you've had trauma, it's not your fault."
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