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Welcome to the "Living with Multiple Personality (and some Disorder!)" blog.

I have Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD, later renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID). It's an unusual diagnosis, as well as a controversial one. While the experts were arguing over if MPD/DID was real or not, I moved through many phases of recovery, married my soulmate (who is also Multiple), attained a BA in Psychology and completed an MS in Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology. As a counselor, I now help people recover, reclaim parts of their lives, and find the hope that their future is worth surviving and fighting for.

I believe that I have an interesting point of view given that I've "been on both sides of the sofa," so to speak. I have not only been a consumer of mental health services, but now I'm a provider. I have to balance my understanding of my clients from both perspectives: objective/clinical/factual, and emotional/empathetic/been-there-done-that/past experience. Every day is a challenge, a endless list of to-do's, an mountain of paperwork, an obstacle course of bureaucratic red tape... and if I'm lucky... a glimpse of the amazing power, resiliency, hope, and perseverance of the human spirit.

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