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Are you wondering what it’s like to live day-to-day with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Other Specified Dissociative Disorder, Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder, or some other form of dissociation? Or are you all too familiar with what it’s like and just need a place to journal? Any member of the cafe can blog from their profile.
We know that living with dissociation can be confusing, isolating, and scary, especially early in the process. The cafe community is here for you. Learn from us, laugh and cry with us. You are not alone.
Hyper-focus
Hi, my name's Saoirse, and being able to hyper-focus is my superpower. It's also my downfall. I've always had the ability to put everything...
Read MoreT-E-C System Elections 2024!
We've been debating and trying new ways to run our system. For decades it was fairly simple - we had three subsystems, each subsystem elected...
Read MoreCats on Motorcycles Jumping Through Flaming Hoops While Singing Top 10 Hits
Did the title get your attention? While we understand that people want exciting content, we refuse to make a spectacle of our disorder to get…
Read MoreThey’ve been trying to tell me the whole time
some newbies showed up. Actually, that’s a lie, one has been here for almost 2 years, and the others I don’t know how long. Funny…
Read MoreMedical stuff today (cw- eating talk)
 Today we went to a doctor’s appointment to check my blood sugar/pressure. We’ve been having some problems with both, mostly I’m concerned I’ll lose…
Read MoreI kinda freak out when I dissociate
Idk, title says all? It starts to happen and immediately my stomach goes HEY NOW HOLD ON THERE and I’m all stressed not knowing what’s…
Read MoreOne Account to Rule Them All?
We've recently made a drastic change. It's made some of us wonder if we have needlessly reinforced our separateness over the years...
Read MoreFirst post here
I’ll start by saying some of us like people and some of us don’t. Actually, I might be the only one in my system who…
Read MoreShort Term Disability Anxiety
These days I'm really only functional for a couple hours a day. I've been forced to take a leave of absence from work...
Read MoreExistential OCD to DPDR
I spent a lot of time looking at this website going “okay, so do you mean all adults with a dissociative disorder?” before I decided…
Read MoreWhat’s Been Going On in T-E-C Land
T-E-C's meat wagon is not the healthiest - we have Diabetes, COPD, Pulmonary Hypertension, Sleep Apnea, Asthma....
Read MoreBrain Soup
I still remember when we first started working with our therapist…over two and a half years ago at this point. I remember being Very Skeptical…
Read MorePadsicles for Somatic Flashbacks
TW: discussion of somatic(body) flashbacks and periods I wanted to share a tutorial for easing somatic flashbacks, particularly for those who have somatic flashbacks in…
Read MoreFiguring things out
Holy fuck. We actually have some more answers about our things. Our therapist has been telling us to spread it among our system so we…
Read MoreToday’s stats
The letter of the day is A as in: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA The color of the day is: [error404] The mood of the day is: And the…
Read MoreThe forgotten stars
The white-hot metal sizzled through the sky Landing at the roots of the sacred tree, it crackled Echoes of the starsteel rang through the forest…
Read MoreThe Results Are In
We are, unfortunately, the child of the parental-units who have abused us emotionally, mentally, physically, and sexually for as long as we can remember. Our…
Read MoreThe Trauma that Comes with Being Autistic
We recently learned that people with autism are more likely to develop trauma disorders. Let’s talk about it. We’ve been diagnosed with autism since we…
Read MoreI hate our job
I fronted for the first time today at work. I HATE it. It’s loud. It’s busy. I don’t have any idea what I’m doing (Ty’s…
Read More_insert cool title_
I don’t understand what is going on with our brain. Something happened today in our brain that basically…shut down the “hosting system” in my brain?…
Read MoreIntroject?
So we have an alter who is named after what our body was going to be called if we were born male (full name and…
Read MoreNew Alter and Some Validation
Kind of a rambley blog update about alters coming out of dormancy and some (positive) family talk. I told our grandma about our DID a…
Read MoreCo-workers
This was going to be a giant rant by the alter who actually probably needs it, but before we could write anything our co-worker that…
Read MoreCafe Community Council 2024 “Kermit Council”
I want to thank the following folks for volunteering to be on the council for the rest of this year: les_fractals_de_la_neige dragons muse And yes,…
Read MoreUncertainty – TW: dissociating, anxiety, eating disorder
To start with… I’m not really sure who’s speaking. Stress and anxiety levels are through the roof. We’ve spent most of the day involved in…
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