A Bit About Us

Why I Started a Support Community

I first began creating Multiple Paths To Healing - DID on March 8, 2009. Before I started I wasn't sure what I wanted it to contain or what I wanted it to look like. I was sure I wanted those who had been through child abuse and, as a result, been diagnosed with DID, to have a place to go where they could work on healing if they so chose. I wanted it to be in addition to their recovery work with their treatment team of professionals. I believe a professional treatment team is essential to healing. In my opinion, we cannot heal alone. In my healing journey, I have learned there is not any one way for all those with DID to travel on their path to healing. Each one of us will travel a journey unique to our own experiences, as well as who we started out as, who we have become, and the makeup of our treatment team in our recovery journey so far. It surely won't be the place for everyone, as I don't believe any one place can be the one place to best fit all. I believe there needs to be a balance in our lives that we didn't have as children. We need places to discuss the positives in our past, present and future, as well as places to work through the negative causes and effects which brought on the need for a child to develop DID to survive.

What we have created is a place where those with DID can come to speak openly about their experiences, struggles and successes. We share support, compassion, and knowledge amongst members in a way that shows everyone the respect they deserve. We have a mission of helping members heal to the best of each member's ability, along with the help of their outside treatment teams such as therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and whoever else may be a part of that team. We are an open discussion group with daily, serious and fun areas. It is private for the protection of our members and to maintain confidentiality.

If you are DID or know someone who is, and you or they are ready for the difficult work of serious healing, there is more information and a link to our group below and on other pages within this web site. Whether you come to our group site or not, I wish healing from trauma and related health issues to all survivors who have taken the time to explore the information on this site. No one deserves to be purposely hurt as a child. No one deserves to have their life derailed as an adult when they begin to be hit with the pain of memories, flashbacks, and PTSD, caused by the trauma as they work toward recovery.

If you work with survivors in trying to assist them on their healing journey, and have come out of curiosity or to understand more, I thank you. You are also welcome to participate in the Multiple Paths To Healing - DID support community as a member to support and learn and share knowledge. No professionals are allowed to practice or advertise their professional services on the forum community.

This is a real condition caused by real abuse. If we wanted to make something up about our life I know I would make up something that was happier. It is difficult to live with DID. I wish I had never had to rely on my ability to develop it, yet I am thankful because it allowed me to survive - and I didn't even know I was doing it at the time.

Why I Created the DID Support Web Site

A Bit About kellen&co

I am a "we" – meaning I have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). It is a result of horrific trauma beginning at a very young age that has lasted my entire lifetime. I/we remembered none of the abuse until the beginning of 1994 at age 42. The type of abuse includes physical, emotional and verbal abuse as well as incest, ritual abuse and mind control programming. In order to survive, my mind created more and more "identities" to take the pain and emotions and memories. I am Kate and the host alter of the DID system we call kellen&co.

I have 3 grown daughters and a grandson whom I love and support unconditionally. I also have an orange tabby cat named Samurai and a calico cat named Shiloh, who allow me to reside with them as long as they are fed and well loved and given treats. In addition to my indoor pets, I feed and water a variety of homeless kitties on my patio. I call them my "left behinds." While they are there, each is given a name and treated with kindness.

I was able to work for about 30 years before realizing recovery had to be my number one priority or I wouldn't survive. I am now on disability because I was no longer able to predict when I could function well enough to perform my job duties, and when I might be a child attempting to perform as an adult or being lost in office hallways or parking garages. The stress of continuing on the job endangered my physical health as well as increasing tendencies toward self-injury and suicidal ideation.

I am in recovery with a great psychologist and psychiatrist.  I also have several knowledgeable and very supportive friends whom I can turn to for help when it is needed. I do the best I can to make it from day to day, struggling to remember what I did when, and what I'm supposed to be doing now. Sometimes the world is seen and lived from my viewpoint, but it may instead be viewed and lived as if by a teen or a child. I don't usually know ahead of time the who or the when of the changes from one of us to another. Although we don't much like it, most of us who work in therapy have reached the point where we realize we're all in one body.

I write poetry, journal, have started a book and do various types of expressive art therapy including collages, drawing, painting, and clay sculpture. These are all part of my healing tools I/we use along our recovery path to healing. DID is a miraculous coping skill that allowed me to survive a horrendous life. I will keep going...keep trying...because I will not allow the abusers to be able to believe they have won by destroying me. I am a survivor, a thriver, and I will win this battle.

Kate, host of the DID system of kellen&co / Owner
Multiple Paths To Healing ~ Dissociative Identity Disorder,
   A DID support community message board

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Recommended Online Support Group
for those who have been diagnosed with DID
and are in treatment for healing with a professional,
and for those professionals who treat those with DID:

Multiple Paths To Healing - DID 

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