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Description: Get access to dozens of live workshops with MedCircle psychologists—use the code SAVE50 for half off through the month of May! watch.medcircle.com Access hundreds of mental health videos on psychology, lived experience, and more HERE: bit.ly/38oXO1S "If you want to heal, you have to fight for it...I want to want to live." Encina Severa has talked to MedCircle host Kyle Kittleson about living with dissociative identity disorder aka DID before. In this video, she goes further and breaks down the trauma she faced in childhood and what it was like growing up with undiagnosed dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder aka MPD.) She even explains the first time she realized she had multiple personalities AKA alters. 00:00 Intro 00:49 Working with dissociative identity disorder 03:03 What undiagnosed DID symptoms feel like 04:57 How Encina's DID was diagnosed 06:45 How Encina communicates with alters 11:07 Encina's co-occurring mental health disorders 12:54 The early childhood trauma that caused DID 13:41 Medicine & therapy that did & didn't work 17:14 The healing process today 21:00 Coping with panic attacks & anxiety 22:56 ADHD, OCD, and PMDD 25:29 DID vs borderline personality disorder According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), It's estimated that 2% of people experience dissociative disorders, with women being more likely than men to be diagnosed. Cooccurring disorders are very common when it comes to mental illness. Encina describes how she also faced depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD (cPTSD), a panic attack, and more. #DID #MentalHealth #MedCircle