Hello, our name is Sam

This blog is simply an expression, but we hope we can help some people along the way. Mental health issues are confusing and a lot of us are bumbling around in the dark looking for answers. We've gotten this far by bumbling into other people who happen to have a scrap of knowledge we need. Slowly things are starting to come together.

The first DID community we found was on Tumblr. This was years after we figured out that we were multiple, and finding this community was one of the best things that ever happened to us. The vocabulary that we learned was, by itself, worth the years of our life that got eaten by tumblr.  Being able to better express our experience has been liberating. Seeing how other people experience and manage the disorder has been enlightening-- but most of all I think the most beneficial thing was coming to understand that we actually have Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Because the actual disorder is nothing like the media portrayals most people are familiar with.  I only know one person who blacks out completely every time they switch.  Our experience of the disorder is much more cohesive than movies would have you believe, and so we operated for a long time under the assumption that our multiplicity wasn't related to "Multiple Personality Disorder" (which is what Dissosiative Identity Disorder used to be called, and the only name we knew for it before finding the Tumblr community).

I suppose part of the reason we decided to create another blog after leaving Tumblr is because we want to continue contributing to the community.  There are a lot of multiple systems still who don't understand what is happening to them.  We have helped two people so far discover that they have DID, and we were helped to figure out what was happening to us by another person who had multiples.  

There is a need for information and guidance, and we intend to continue paying it forward the best way we know how: by talking about ourselves on the Internet.

So welcome to our blog!  Our name is Sam and there are a lot of us.