Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Spiritual Forum
Episode: Episode 191 - Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder
Description: Vega Belle is a survivor of childhood abuse who now lives with dissociative identity disorder (DID) and teaches & studies sociology at university in New Zealand. Dissociative identity disorder, formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder, is characterized by a person's identity fragmenting into two or more distinct personality states. The fragmentation occurs as a protective response to abuse. In this podcast, Vega shares what living with DID is like. There is also a seven-minute recorded segment made by one of her alters that is fascinating. Vega also describes some other alters, including two who are advanced spiritually. Vega considers herself...