Severe Illness and Dissociative Identity Disorder
A note from me to my readers
You may have noticed that I haven’t written a piece for a while. I’ve been sick and haven’t had the energy to open my computer and write.
We just found out we have non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, a severe and potentially deadly disorder. It makes me feel weak and nauseous, plus I have pain and bloating from a condition known as ascites, where fluid has built up in my body. Ascites has caused me to gain a lot of weight even though I don’t feel like eating.
I’m not writing this as an excuse for not writing for a while. No, I’m writing to explain what is happening that has prevented me from wordsmithing.
Dealing with DID When Ill
As you out here who live every day with dissociative identity disorder well know, severe illness, or hell, even a mild sickness, can throw us into a dissociative mess. However, I’ve come far enough in my healing that chaos is not likely to occur.
Now, that may change, but for now, the only DID-related symptom I am experiencing is dissociative amnesia. Granted, it is a pain in the tush to lose recent conversations and events, but I consider that mild.
As I continue to deteriorate, I fully expect at least one alter to join the…
