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The good folks over at GoodTherapy.org invited me to join them for a Q&A session to discuss mental health stigma, and therapy issues pertaining to dissociative identity disorder — and I accepted!

I mention how PTSD is becoming stereotyped in that every time a veteran commits suicide or violence against others, the news media connects “PTSD = unstable and violent.” It does a disservice to all veterans, as well as to anyone else diagnosed with PTSD.

I also discuss my therapy process for dissociative identity disorder, especially in the early years of my treatment, and describe what I believe should be the goal as far as “integration” is concerned.

So come on over to Becoming One Every Day: An Interview with Author Sarah Olson, and feel free to join in on the great conversation already ongoing in the comments!
 
 

Continue reading]]> While I can congratulate Toni Collette for winning Best Actress in a Comedy Series for United States of Tara, that’s about all I can do. I don’t get Showtime, so I’ve never seen it.

I’d like to see it. People with Dissociative Identity Disorder can be very funny. We certainly get ourselves into predicaments most people never dream about. Like, arriving at a party in a dress we’d never be caught dead in, but … there we were. (Kind of explains some of the dresses that ended up at the Emmys.) Like, faking our way through conversations with people who know incredible details about us. (Just like the Emmys!) (Not talkin’ ’bout you, Toni!)

So Toni! Have Diablo Cody’s people call my people, ‘k? We have a million ideas.