Feelings Friday @ Five - REMOVING THE STIGMA - Dissociative Identity Disorder

Linda Vidi interviews TJo Calk, a child abuse and neglect survivor, author, volunteer, and child welfare advocate. Jo is a survivor of long-term incest by her grandfather, physical abuse by her father, and emotional neglect by her mother. Under the pseudonym/persona of “Megan Erin Galloway,” Jo wrote a memoir/self-help book titled "Pieces: Help for Your Life Journey". Jo will share her story, as well as what it’s like to live with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) as a coping methodfrom the child abuse, and her creation of the various personas/alters to fill the internal empty space due to a perceived“lack of personality.” Tonight, Jo briefly discusses her childhood, and then updates us with a recent triggering event that fragmented the “cooperative selves” Jo had maintained for about 10 years. Jo has reintroduced the personas to each other and feels stronger now than ever before. She will also explain “isolating with a dozen intimate friends” during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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