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Cadence shares about community knowledge of fragments (a two-dimensional alter) and polyfragmented systems (people with more than 100 alters). Note: I am not a therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist. Everything we say in this podcast is what works for us and the other people we know who claims what works for them. If you are in a crisis, call your local helpline for professional assistance. Please listen to this podcast at your own discretion and take good care of yourself. Quotes from Dissociative Galaxy's Common Terms channel by Black: Fragment is a less distinct part. Typically, they split for a "not so big" task or "not so long" situation. They usually hold one feeling or one task. Therefore, fragments will usually only have one purpose or will not be that defined of a part. They can also just be a memory, not a complete alter with an appearance or personal will. Commonly they also split for holding trauma memories, which no one in the system is capable of dealing with. If fragments form only to perform short-time tasks, it's common that they end up fusing after their "job" is finished. Polyfragmentation: Polyfragmented DID, or also known as Complex DID, is another form of how a system can present. C-DID is not an official diagnosis but is more of system label modifier or specification. Common misinformation is that C-DID just means 100+ parts, which is not true. Most common parts of C-DID are: — A large number of parts, alters, fragments. — Layers / epochs: A system may tend to group people together by what stage of life they split in, and/or new sets of alters split to handle major changes in life situation ; each grouping system depends on each and every system. — Presence of subsystems: Either or both of group and "system-in-system" subsystems. — Weak non-dissociative defenses: Dissociation and/or escapism are a primary coping mechanism. — Very active and/or complex headspaces. — Complex splitting patterns: Multiple alters splitting from the same incident, or multiple over a short period of time. — Pain-phobic orientation: "They can't handle that memory / remembering any trauma, I'm keeping them safe from it". — Copy alters: Alters that are very similar to the people they split off. — A fairly small group of primary fronters, with other fronters coming around as needed. — More frequent coconsciousness or passive influence. You don't have to have all of these to be considered polyfragmented/complex, but if you experience a lot of them it's worth looking into. It's important to add that you can experience those without being polyfragmented. Image Credit: Dissociative Identity Disorder in TheMighty.com

Full transcripts of all episodes available at https://truetalesbydisabilityadvocates.buzzsprout.comIn this episode, guests Laura Odom and Sheena Walter tell host John Beer about the “Awakenings” in their lives. Laura pushed through doubts brought on by years of narcolepsy to try her hand at a new adventure (“Finally Waking Up”), while Sheena flipped self-consciousness about her PICC line into a new and very public role of “Advocacy, Courage and Self-Compassion.” Both women took a stroke of boldness that ignited newfound lives of advocacy and pride in themselves! Listen in to learn about their victories. Toby Al-Trabulsi produces, Kristen Gooch and Ms. Boye mixing and editing, and Jennifer Howell and Joey Gidseg provide script and production.HOSTNo moss gathers on a rolling wheelchair, and throughout the state of Texas are sightings of John Beer and his travel trailer. With his wife's help, John spotlights the disability side of skydiving, fire evacuations and other topics for New Mobility magazine. You'll also find him on MS Connections at TheMighty.com – and he's wheelie excited being on the team creating Art Spark Texas' new podcast, True Tales by Disability Advocates. John was a member of our first Virtual Speaking Advocates Training and is one of the storytellers in Episode 2, “Life on Wheels”. Keep up with John Beer on his blog: Wheelieoutthere.blogspot.com Follow John on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wheelieoutthere/ GUESTLaura Odom is a Tyler, Texas-based advocate primarily for disability and rural causes. She is also the office manager for a locally owned textbook publisher. When she isn't working, she takes her Australian Shepherd/Border Collie-mix dog for car rides and loves to snuggle with her two black cats. She enjoys writing, playing guitar and cross-stitching. Laura was diagnosed with Narcolepsy Type 1 in January 2021 after pursuing a diagnosis for almost 20 years. She continues to raise awareness about Narcolepsy in hopes that more people won't have to wait that long to receive treatment.On social media, you can find her at: Instagram: @ordinarileighTikTok: ordinarileighTwitter: @lauradoestweetFacebook: Laura Ashleigh OdomGUESTSheena Walter is an artist at Imagine Art in Austin and also works for Art Spark Texas as a social media influencer. She wants to advocate for a change in how people with disabilities are viewed in our society and make sure we have not just a seat at the table, but a voice as well. Her sources of strength and inspiration are her faith, her friends, her family, her pets and walks in the outdoors.  Find Sheena and her art on Instagram @sheenawalter1 

Christine Porath joins me as co-host again as we talk with her brother, Mike Porath, about how community can help support us after difficult diagnoses. Mike's daughter was diagnosed with a rare condition and it was a community he found online that helped him and he has grown that community to over 3.5 million on TheMighty.com, where members are empowered and connected to others living with the same health challenges as them.Links:https://peds.com https://corp.themighty.comhttp://www.christineporath.com https://www.howcanihelppod.comhttps://www.citizensofsound.comhttps://www.lesliepowellmusic.com

In this episode, host Toby Al-Trabulsi talks to John Beer and Kristen Gooch, who talk about ways they have developed resilience while pursuing their passions in life as wheelchair users and share their stories, “Is There a Doctor in The House?” and “I Was Meant to Shine.” John Beer takes us along his adventurous experience of trying to stay stocked up on staples during the covid era, and Kristen Gooch gives listeners insight into her experience as a disabled actress, following her dreams. The guests in this episode share their creativity, adaptability, and wisdom in their responses to the barriers that they encounter throughout their lives.   You can find this episode, and many more, by subscribing to the True Tales by Disability Advocates Podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts or your favorite platform.Click here to listen with a full transcript. Host: Toby Al-TrabulsiToby Al-Trabulsi is an actor, writer and creative access advocate for performers with disabilities based out of Austin, TX. Toby is a member of TILT performance group and ScriptWorks and is currently pursuing podcasting through the Art Spark podcasting workshop. True Tales by Disability Advocates. He is eager to see where this journey takes him. Follow Toby on Twitter or InstagramTwitter: @Tobias_ZaneInstagram: @Tobias_ZaneStorytellersJohn BeerJohn Beer profiles the people with disabilities and volunteers who enforce accessible parking for all in the upcoming issue of New Mobility magazine. You can also find him on TheMighty.com – and he's wheelie excited about being on the team creating Art Spark Texas' new podcast, True Tales by Disability Advocates.Keep up with John Beer on his blog:Wheelieoutthere.blogspot.com Follow John on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/wheelieoutthere/ Kristen GoochKristen Gooch is an Actress, Poet, and Advocate from Austin, Tx with Cerebral Palsy and uses a wheelchair for mobility.  She hopes to broaden her horizons and branch out into film and television someday.  She currently facilitates a peer support group called Adapting Sheros for women with mobility disabilities through Imagineart.  She is a company member of the TILT performance group and Paradox Players.#Acting #Theatre #Auditions #Ableism #Discrimination #Job #Career #CP #CerebralPalsy #Wheelie #Wheelchair #Covid #Pacman #Barriers #Podcast #Disability #Disabilities #StructuralAbleism #Courage #Gutsy #Humor #Comedy #Adventure #Imagination #Actress #Texas #DisabilityAdvocate #DisabilityAdvocates #DisabilityTwitter #Disabled #Unstoppable #Creative #Artistic #RepresentationMatters #RoleModel #WindowIntoMyWorld #SliceOfLife #Pandemic #Shopping #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #MobilityAide #AmbulatoryDisabilities 

TIFFANY JENKINS IN 2019 MEETS M2 THE ROCKTiffany Jenkins is a wife, and mother to three awesome human beings. She realized her love of writing last year when she started her blog, “Juggling the Jenkins”, where she writes about motherhood, addiction and marriage. Tiffany has acquired a huge social media following where her videos receive millions of views.She uses her platform to help and inspire others who are struggling with mother-hood, mental health, addiction, and those who just need a good laugh. Her articles have been featured on “BLUNTmoms.com”, “Themighty.com” and “Thoughtcatalog.com”, and her Blog and Face-book page have been covered on several news outlets and television programs.This month she will be celebrating five years clean and sober from drugs and alcohol. She feels that publishing a book, is a wonderful way to celebrate this milestone.https://www.facebook.com/jugglingthej... (less)DALLAS, TX – Michael Molthan doesn't shy away from talking about his painful past of drug and alcohol addiction. On his talk show called, M2-The Rock, he shares how he went from building homes to being homeless."When I had the homebuilding company my behaviors were getting worse and worse," Molthan told CBN News. "My consequences were getting worse and worse."Molthan was arrested on a drug charge in 2009. "I had a large amount of cocaine in my truck," he explained. "I was intoxicated, and I was arrested. And I'll never forget that when they took me down to the jail, I had my very first mug shot."Hitting Rock Bottom26 mug shots later, Molthan hit rock bottom. "When I look back, that's how the word powerless – I'm powerless over this deadly disease," he said. Feeling agitated, anxious, and facing three years behind bars, Molthan underwent a spiritual encounter after an inmate asked him to read to him. "I grab this book from a gang-banger, a black panther, and he used it as a pillow," he explained. "Brand new book and it was the Living Recovery Bible, New Living Translation. Now, these are black words on white paper at the time. They're not meaning anything to me. Next thing I know, four days have passed by and I started thinking about this and I go, four days just went by and I wasn't anxious. I wasn't in fear. I was calm, and I was at peace."Life-Changing MomentLater that night, he experienced another life-changing moment. "I couldn't breathe," he recounted. "All of a sudden I felt all this trash and hatred and anger and resentment and everything just coming out of my body like flies. All this stuff was just coming out. And I just took this breath and I just go something magical happened and I was full of love, and looking around I loved everybody." "I started preaching and I didn't realize what I was doing," he said. "And I did it at the end of every dinner."Paperwork Error Leads to Early ReleaseIn 2017, a paperwork error led to Molthan's accidental release. So, with no money or food, he walked 300 miles to ask judge Jennifer Bennett to send him back to jail. "I walk in there to turn myself in and I'm excited," says Molthan. "I'm like, 'I'm going to go back to prison. I'm going to do my time, get this over with and get this behind me.' I mean, complete acceptance. God is running the show, right?"He continued, "I walk in there and Judge Bennett says, 'Mr. Molthan there's obviously someone a lot bigger working in your life than me and I'm not going to get in the way.' And she set me free. And she said, 'I want you to come back tomorrow with the self-correct program. I want you to go pay it forward."'And Molthan is doing just that by sharing his story of freedom and sobriety with those seeking help for addiction.Helping Others Trapped by Addiction

Toronto author and public speaker, Erin Paterson, tested gene positive for Huntington's Disease (HD) in 2006. Shortly after she started suffering from depression, then received more crushing news, she was infertile.  Despite those diagnoses she was determined to have a family and live a joyful life. Her stories have appeared on over a dozen sites including KevinMD, TheMighty and HuntingtonsDiseaseNews.com. She is the author of, All Good Things:  A Story About Genetic Testing, Infertility and One Woman's Relentless Search for Happiness You can visit Erin's website at: https://www.erinpaterson.com/ You can get the book on Amazon here.

E282 Dr. Thomas Ousterhout, a psychologist, and member of the Association of Computing Machinery, writes about mental health for TheMighty.com and the “Conquer Your Mind” group, is the author of “The Matrix Has You,” and wrote his dissertation on text emojis! We discuss his own suicide attempt in childhood, his subsequent experience on “lockdown” in […]

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Last week Joe was invited onto The Mighty's monthy Facebook Live show and got to have a great conversation with fellow advocates Rudy Caseres, Hannah Blum, and Lizzie Reezay about love and bipolar disorder. We thought it would be fitting to share for Valentines Day. Now click play and breathe in that Good Air!You can find today's guests on Instagram @rudycaseres, @hannahdblum, @lizziereezay, and @sincerely_joe.You can earn more about The Mighty and the amazing work that they do at www.themighty.com

Today Zach sits down with Dr. Emily King, a Licensed Psychologist and Health Services Provider in private practice in Raleigh, North Carolina with nearly 20 years of experience working with children and adolescents with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Dr. King received her Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked as a School Psychologist in Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Houston, Texas before returning home to Raleigh in 2010. She is passionate about helping parents embrace their parenting journey by taking care of their own mental health and finding the best fit of services for their child’s growth and happiness. Dr. King is also a mother to two boys, ages 7 and 13 years old. Dr. King launched Parenting On Your Own Path in 2020 to share online resources beyond her psychology practice. Resources include the Parenting On Your Own Path blog, [The Roadmap] online course for parents, and digital social stories. Dr. King has been quoted in The Washington Post and has written for Parents.com, Mother.ly.com, and TheMighty.com. You can also find Dr. King on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube where she shares helpful information for parents.

On today's show, the man, the myth, the legend, Mike Porath, Founder and CEO at The Mighty and member of the Board of Directors at NORD. For those unaware, The Mighty is the world's largest digital health community online at TheMighty.com and via a free mobile app for iOS and Android. 3MM members can't be wrong, and I can attest that this. We talk about his family's personal experience with rare disease, working for ABC and AOL before the Internet was a thing — and what it's like to look in your rearview mirror and realize you created the thing you only wished you had that is now helping millions of people every day. Download The Mighty mobile app for iOS and Android or join online at TheMighty.com

Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about powerful ways people find one another on the platform. He then answers the question, “What would you like people to know about TheMighty.com?” He encourages people on the platform to share their ideas and feedback Mike@TheMighty.com and Community@TheMighty.com What is bringing him wellness or lighting up his spirit? Mike shares how he is practicing a bit of self care these days.

Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about his hopes for the future. He discusses a study Harvard did with TheMighty to look at whether content was making a difference people using the site as it related to suicide and suicidal ideation. How does TheMighty impact its community? What is the evidence? How do we make the platform more globally accessible? The primary thing TheMighty is solving for is isolation, the emotional impact these health conditions have and our tendency to feel lost, scared, and alone. Mike also share’s a concrete story of how a crowdsourced solution early in Annabel’s life stuck with him and influenced the founding of TheMighty.

Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about what he’s learned from parenting a child that was born differently than he expected. What are their guideposts for parenting? What would he say to other parents who are on a similar journey? Finding a present-day focus brought relief. He also talks a bit where the name "TheMighty" came from and about the roll of guilt and grief.

Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about how The Mighty got started. The Mighty isn't about health so much as it's about PEOPLE. What has surprised you about the ways The Mighty has grown and changed? How have you grown from parenting Annabel? What would you tell another parent who had a child born different than they expected her to be?

Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about what it was like to have a daughter born with a chromosomal difference. How did The Mighty get their start? How has the platform changed from its initial spark? In the early days of his daughter Annabel's diagnosis, he found an old PDF on the web with 6 stories from parents who had the same condition as Annabel. He really connected with those stories. Their power moved him, the humor and joy, pierced the loneliness. "There's other people out there dealing with this. We can too." That became the crux of the idea for The Mighty. How do you build a health community? Can stories lead to conversations lead to community?

More About Annette LeonardFor Annette, what started out as mono, morphed into CFS, then fibromyalgia, then a life-threatening cluster of autoimmune diseases called antisynthetase syndrome. She writes, "living with pain and uncertainty have been unwelcome educators. My illnesses do not define me. If health is the absence of disease and wellness is the presence of wholeness, then no matter what our disease status, we can work toward our wellness, our wholeness."Learn more about Annette here Listen to her podcast: “Chronic Wellness” Read more from Annette in her blog on The Mighty.-----------------------StuffThatWorks is a crowdsource-based research platform empowering people with medical conditions to transform their experiences into an organized knowledge database aimed at figuring out which treatments work best and for whom.Learn more about StuffThatWorks.We're using crowdsourcing to gather data about chronic conditions and treatment effectiveness.  Contribute to the Fibromylagia community Contribute to the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) community Contribute to the Sjogren's Syndrome community Music for The Patient Is In courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions.

Follow Priscilla on Instagram @mentalrealnessmami.Priscilla María is a mental health writer and speaker. Her work has been featured on some of the internet’s most popular platforms such as TheMighty and Blavity. Apart from writing, she advocates on behalf of several organizations including: a local domestic violence shelter, The Confess Project and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) as a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship, and her Bachelor’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University, graduating cum laude. To learn more about her visit www.priscillamaria.com

Follow Priscilla on Instagram @mentalrealnessmami.Priscilla María is a mental health writer and speaker. Her work has been featured on some of the internet’s most popular platforms such as TheMighty and Blavity. Apart from writing, she advocates on behalf of several organizations including: a local domestic violence shelter, The Confess Project and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) as a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship, and her Bachelor’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University, graduating cum laude. To learn more about her visit www.priscillamaria.com

Today’s episode shares shoutout greetings to listeners across America and across the globe! Your humble podhostess and peer support human, Kathy Surline, also walks us through more good finds from TheMighty.com and thoughts from their contributors on who their “safe person” is; how we can be an emotionally safe person for someone else, and even, for ourselves! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/WisdomWithin/support

This episode explores gaslighting and its impact on both men and women. Sam comes back on the pod and we struggle to offer up some solutions to gaslighting. Have a better one? Email it to UnravelingPink@gmail.com or tweet it to @UnravelingPink. Resources in this episode: Gaslight movie excerpt (1944). (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BICqcEvzhVw)  Oxford English Dictionary. (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-term-gaslighting-was-coined-by-a-great-movie-starring-ingrid-bergman-181242113.html) "Situations in Which Men Gaslight Women." (https://blogs.psychcentral.com/relationships/2016/01/20-situations-in-which-men-gaslight-women/) "4 Levels of Gaslighting." (https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/4-levels-gaslighting-unconscious-malicious-pgtn/)  Suzannah Weiss, Bustle, 2018 “7 Subtle Ways Women Are Gaslighted On A Daily Basis.” (https://www.bustle.com/p/7-subtle-ways-women-are-gaslighted-on-a-daily-basis-10079020) Wanda Thibodeaux, Inc., “A Narcissist at Work can kill your Confidence.”  (https://www.inc.com/wanda-thibodeaux/victim-of-gaslighting-youre-not-alone-these-8-tips-will-help-you-protect-your-c.html) Janet Coburn, TheMighty.com “Men Can Be Victims of Gaslighting Too.” (https://themighty.com/2018/03/male-gaslighting/)

Monika returns to the podcast to talk about using EMDR therapy in order to deal with being abused as a child and how that has affected her marriage as well as her relationship with her family. We also talk about Erin’s Law; BDD - Body Dysmorphic Disorder; Toxic Masculinity; and writing about topics like “Covert Incest” for TheMighty.com themighty.com/author/monika-sudakov erinslaw.org emdr.com

Stephanie Woodward at recent protests of proposed Trump Care. Photos courtesy of TheMighty.com Trump has something special in mind for poor people and the disability community as he moves into the Federal budget season with a tax reform agenda. Cuts! We're not talking about the paring knife slices you usually notice over time.  It's bayonets, weed wackers, bulldozers and tanks — that kind of cuts. What cuts Trump can get from his right wing, but fractured, majority in the legislature is an open question. But, we need to know what he plans for the disability community and who is making plans to stand up to him. We talk to Lindsay Baran, policy analyst with the National Council on Independent Living in Washington, D.C., for the answers. With thoughts about AC Transit, the Alameda County bus system, from Josh Elwood. Produced and hosted by Mark Romoser and Sheela Gunn-Cushman. The post 2018 Federal Budget: Lindsay Baran appeared first on KPFA.

Stephanie Woodward at recent protests of proposed Trump Care. Photo courtesy of TheMighty.com Photo courtesy of TheMighty.com Trump has something special in mind for poor people and the disability community as he moves into the Federal budget season with a tax reform agenda. Cuts! We're not talking about the paring knife slices you usually notice over time.  It's bayonets, weed wackers, bulldozers and tanks — that kind of cuts. What cuts Trump can get from his right wing, but fractured, majority in the legislature is an open question. But, we need to know what he plans for the disability community and who is making plans to stand up to him. We talk to Lindsay Baran, policy analyst with the National Council on Independent Living in Washington, D.C., for the answers. With thoughts about AC Transit, the Alameda County bus system, from Josh Elwood. Produced and hosted by Mark Romoser and Sheela Gunn-Cushman. The post Upcoming Federal Budget: Lindsay Baran appeared first on KPFA.

Mental illness affects about 1 in 4 adults in America...Yet it is still an issue few discuss openly. It's certainly not common dinner table conversation material. Maybe it's because most mental illnesses seem invisible, only manifesting in our behaviors and thoughts. One author aims to reduce the stigma around mental illness In "The End", we enter the mind of a character suffering from the ups and downs of bipolar disorder. Nichole Hallberg has been secretly writing about her battle with mental illness for most of her life. And since she went public about it, she has used her writing as a tool to decrease the stigma around the common problem in America. One story at a time, it is working. Nichole Hallberg has published her work on TheMighty.com and on an international Bipolar website. She lives in Southern California with her fiancee and dog. She blogs at thatgirlinbklyn.wordpress.com. And you can follow her on Twitter @nickel_press Download Episode 26 Today!

Brad and Julia talk with Mike Porath, founder of TheMighty.com. Also: Julia plays hardball with the Never Game; Brad gets the dogs howling at the piano; Julia makes a special purchase; Brad's performance problems; Da Doo Ron Ron Ron; Julia wants new arms. And more!