Inpatient Treatment (Forgot to press 'publish'!)

Dear my wonderful readers,

I apologise now for my lack of blogging. I've just realised that it's been a long time since I made a post. May!? I couldn't believe it when I logged on and found this had happened. I'm back to the blogging thing now, I've also reignited my Twitter account and created a Facebook page raising awareness for Dissociative Identity Disorder.

The reason I haven't been blogging is because I was quite busy. I'd started my volunteering and was engaging in therapy. In September my mental health started to deteriorate and by October I'd completely lost it. I was dissociating severely almost daily (Sally would come out, slice up my leg and I'd have to go to hospital to get stitches). In only a month I'd needed over 400 stitches. It got to the point where I could no longer stay in my foster placement. I was chronically anaemic, I was drained and tired, I was struggling to take my medication. Overall everything went to shit.

On 6th November I was admitted to hospital. The doctor 'officially' diagnosed me with Dissociative Identity Disorder, however my psychiatrist I see as an outpatient also thinks I have Borderline Personality Disorder as there is a great deal of overlap, so somehow I'm now with two diagnoses.

On 3rd January I was back home with my foster carers, but over those 2 weeks I got very unwell very quickly. I didn't eat anything, I refused to take any form of medication, I was still dissociating severely which meant my foster carers were yo-yoing to and from hospital with me to get stitches. By the end of the 2 weeks I turned around and said I needed help. I was admitted to hospital again on 18th January and have been an inpatient since, just over 5 weeks now.

I can safely say now that I'm taking medication (way too much) and my dissociative episodes haven't been so bad. I've had a few major ones at the hospital but I'll go into that during another post. This post was mainly to update you all on why I haven't been blogging but now I'm getting back on track. 

For those of you with DID, or with a loved one who has DID, or even just to help people like me raise awareness for the diagnosis then please 'Like' the Facebook page I created and help make the diagnosis less controversial and allow more people to understand the complexity of the diagnosis.

https://www.facebook.com/DIDCampaign

Take care my fellow bloggers.

I will be updating AT LEAST once a week.

xoxo.