Grief

The basis of healing from DID

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Grief is the primary component of healing from dissociative identity disorder (DID) or other trauma-based mental health conditions. But what happens when your grief isn’t acknowledged but belittled as nonsense?

This article will focus on disenfranchised grief, what it is, and how grief is a part of healing from DID.

Grief is Grief

Grief, whether from a loss such as a loved one or the loss of your childhood, is painful and may last for a lifetime. So long as a person is grieving what happened to them, they are moving slowly down the road to health.

Stop the grieving process too soon, and you leave the person trapped in a prison they did not make but are subject to. Grief needs to be expressed, wept over, and come to a satisfying completion. Without closure, the wound remains fresh, and healing cannot happen.

Although grief is no fun, it is a necessary and a fundamental part of the human experience. No, you did not cause your grief, but it is up to you to find the door of escape and live again.

Fair? Of course not. But life isn’t easy or fair for anyone.

What is Disenfranchised Grief?

Disenfranchised grief is the concept that grief isn’t acknowledged on a societal or personal level anymore. Perhaps…