A personal view of Dissociative Disorders in Media

Hi, I’m Bunny, someone with a dissociative disorder who likes reading up on and watching media about Dissociative disorders. I hope my personal takes can give you some insight about the media before consuming it yourself! **I am not a professional in any way, all the reviews here are based off my personal experience*

[cddmedia]

Welcome to CDD media! As the title suggests we review and talk about media (ie books, music, research papers, ect) that links to CDD's and adjacent topics such as trauma recovery.

This blog was heavily inspired by @bunnidid-reviews so please check out this blog too!

Notes:

We do not get involved in syscourse, however this blog and its contents will be based upon purely a medical perspective of systemhood.

This blog may be inactive for long periods of time

Any and all reviews are from a purely personal point of view.

Reccomendations for any media is encouraged to be sent in!

[bunnidid-reviews]

Book rec: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

It doesn't explicitly use the term DID but it centers around someone whose mind is repeatedly fractured by trauma and forms other selves within her. It's given a spiritual/supernatural explanation.

The entire book is very internal. Goes into different parts being seen/unseen, conflicting desires between parts, self-love and making the body a home for all of them.

CW for brief mentions of (C)SA.

I looked into it and the blurb sounded really good. I love that you mention how the parts work together to making their body a home. What a beautiful, lovely thing to strive for for all of us

I'd really like to read this now, thanks so much for the reccomendation!

[bunnidid-reviews]

i yam reading a lot, but I havent picked up a DID book since my diagnosis last summer oTL every now n again i hope the special interest comes back, so we'll seee

[bunnidid-reviews]

I’ve been seeing so many amazing art blogs that share their experience with multiplicity lately, and I think its a wonderful, beautiful thing. Can we get some extra support for our creators who make dissociative content themselves? :) (comics, art, written works, etc!)

💕Please reblog this post and show off some multiplicity art if you have it! 💕

Consider this post a 🫵 I am looking at you, please share shamelessly. And if others share their art, pls be sure to support eachother 💛

[mintopoleli]

today

[bunnidid-reviews]

I’ve been seeing so many amazing art blogs that share their experience with multiplicity lately, and I think its a wonderful, beautiful thing. Can we get some extra support for our creators who make dissociative content themselves? :) (comics, art, written works, etc!)

💕Please reblog this post and show off some multiplicity art if you have it! 💕

Consider this post a 🫵 I am looking at you, please share shamelessly. And if others share their art, pls be sure to support eachother 💛

[crossroads-system]

We have some comic pages about daily life up on @mundane-plurality

[watcherwingedcat]

Ookay, we have our own blog, @pluralcomics, if you want to check them out!

[bunnidid-reviews]

I’ve been seeing so many amazing art blogs that share their experience with multiplicity lately, and I think its a wonderful, beautiful thing. Can we get some extra support for our creators who make dissociative content themselves? :) (comics, art, written works, etc!)

💕Please reblog this post and show off some multiplicity art if you have it! 💕

Consider this post a 🫵 I am looking at you, please share shamelessly. And if others share their art, pls be sure to support eachother 💛

[fish-n-friends]

we occasionally post plural art under the "#plural art" tag, and quite a lot of our poetry is about plurality in one way or another.

theres one drawing we really like, i'll grab it rq!

[bunnidid-reviews]

I’ve been seeing so many amazing art blogs that share their experience with multiplicity lately, and I think its a wonderful, beautiful thing. Can we get some extra support for our creators who make dissociative content themselves? :) (comics, art, written works, etc!)

💕Please reblog this post and show off some multiplicity art if you have it! 💕

Consider this post a 🫵 I am looking at you, please share shamelessly. And if others share their art, pls be sure to support eachother 💛

[crossroads-system]

We have some comic pages about daily life up on @mundane-plurality

[bunnidid-reviews]

I’ve been seeing so many amazing art blogs that share their experience with multiplicity lately, and I think its a wonderful, beautiful thing. Can we get some extra support for our creators who make dissociative content themselves? :) (comics, art, written works, etc!)

💕Please reblog this post and show off some multiplicity art if you have it! 💕

Consider this post a 🫵 I am looking at you, please share shamelessly. And if others share their art, pls be sure to support eachother 💛

[saltyfoxes-artist]

my comic An Untitled Comic About Friendship and Love is about my plurality!

[bunnidid-reviews]

I’ve been seeing so many amazing art blogs that share their experience with multiplicity lately, and I think its a wonderful, beautiful thing. Can we get some extra support for our creators who make dissociative content themselves? :) (comics, art, written works, etc!)

💕Please reblog this post and show off some multiplicity art if you have it! 💕

Consider this post a 🫵 I am looking at you, please share shamelessly. And if others share their art, pls be sure to support eachother 💛

[thecircularsystem]

I’m solely a writer — I dabble in digital and traditionally drawn art, but I don’t consider myself very good. Here’s the favorite bit of plural writing I’ve ever done.

It’s a poem written by me — our sexual part — about our recovery, and how recovery has led to me just being so much more than I used to be.

TW for sui and SH, allusions to trauma (SA and physical abuse). Link under cut, just in case.

“More”

“More” There’s so much more. More. But I’m here, and I’m gay as fuck, and I’m just trying to live it up. What does living even look like? Wh

[free-queer-books]

The Summer We've Had by Katherine Blakeman

Katherine Blakeman's unmissable first foray into lesbian fiction... After a nightmare couple of years following the death of her celebrity singer mother, Cass Mulligan is moving down to the sun, sea and shingle of Cornwall for a fresh start. But she soon realises that she’s not the only one in need of some TLC… Felicia Wilson’s life is one long series of spinning plates. She has Dissociative Identity Disorder, a system of five alternate personalities living in her body, and they all have different hopes, fears and desires. When Cass is thrown together with Felicia, some beautiful friendships grow, and soon there is substantial mutual attraction between Cass and dominant alter Heather. But if things go wrong, they could go very wrong. Can they build a relationship AND keep everybody happy? Content warning: brief mentions of domestic abuse, sexual abuse and suicide.

Promotion length: Unknown, but ends in a few days

Markets available: Amazon

Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BKXZWJFF

[ace-cyclic]

@bunnidid-reviews I haven't read this yet, but I found a free book with a system protagonist! (explicitly DID)

[bunnidid-reviews]

I’ve been seeing so many amazing art blogs that share their experience with multiplicity lately, and I think its a wonderful, beautiful thing. Can we get some extra support for our creators who make dissociative content themselves? :) (comics, art, written works, etc!)

💕Please reblog this post and show off some multiplicity art if you have it! 💕

Consider this post a 🫵 I am looking at you, please share shamelessly. And if others share their art, pls be sure to support eachother 💛

[free-queer-books]

Headmates by October Arden

At six-and-a-half feet tall, Luke should be impossible to miss. Instead, he's spent his life being overlooked, dismissed, forgotten. So when brilliant, magnetic Jaime starts pursuing him with unusual intensity, Luke doesn't question it. He's just grateful someone finally sees him. What Luke doesn't know is that Jaime shares his body and consciousness with Alex—his headmate, protector, and the man he's loved for eleven years. What Luke can't see is that when Jaime looks at him, he's seeing someone else entirely. Because Luke looks exactly like Alex would if he had his own body. As Jaime becomes obsessed with touching Alex through Luke's skin, their perfect bond begins to fracture. Alex watches helplessly as the man he loves betrays what they've built together. And Luke falls deeper for someone who's using his body to love a ghost. When the truth comes out, it will destroy everything they thought they knew about love, identity, and what it means to be real. An intense, emotional queer romance about the dangerous space between want and need. For fans of TJ Klune's hurt/comfort and Eli Easton's emotional complexity.

Promotion length: Unknown

Markets available: Amazon

Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK95LLGQ

[ace-cyclic]

@bunnidid-reviews this book is free right now if you're still looking for a copy!

[bunnidid-reviews]

https://www.tumblr.com/bunnidid-reviews/791144766051057664/hi-this-time-ive-found-a-gay-novel-about-did

What’s the title please, it won’t let us see it without signing up

It showed up on my phone, so here’s the title and cover:

Its Headmates, Inside: book one by October Arden

Hope this helps!

[bunnidid-reviews]

🐰Nosy Dissociative Parts Ask Game 🌹

I wanted to make an ask meme about things I like asking my OSDDID partsy friends thats a bit on the lighter side ✨ nows your chance to be unabashedly 👀 and to overshare as you like~

1. What do you call a group of parts for you? A flock? A crew? A herd??? Do you call your parts anything different from just Parts?

2. How do you go about figuring out if you’ve split or found another part?

3. How do you figure out who you are in the moment?

4. Do you go to sleep or wake up as different parts? What are dreams like for you?

5. With close(and safe) relationships, is it important to you to disclose about your parts? How much involvement are you comfortable with, if at all?

6. What’s outward gender presentation like for you and your parts? Is it important to you?

7. What’s sexuality like for you? Does having multiple parts effect your relationships?

8. Do you enjoy communicating with your parts? Would you like to share about an interaction you’ve recently had?

9. If you have OCs(original characters), do your parts have any influence on them? Alternatively, if you’re creative in general, do they have any influence?

10. If you had unlimited money and opportunities, is there anything you’d want to do for your parts?

11. Is there any sort of internal organization or structure for your parts? How set-in-place is it?

12. Do any of your parts have special relationships with eachother? Would you like to share about some?

13. Do you have parts that oppose eachother? (In views, personality, ect)

14. Who’s the part that is most likely to deal with high-stress situations first?

15. Do you have parts who are best for self-soothing and regulating?

16. Is there anything about your disorder that has a physical effect on you? (Like headache/sleepiness with switching, chronic illness as a result of trauma, ect)

17. If you have friends with parts too, are you close on a part-by-part basis or more general whole people? Would you prefer it to be one way or the other?

18. Are there any reoccurring themes or symbolism in your system? Would you like to share about it?

19. How do you honestly feel about therapy? Have you had experience with it? If you have, what is/was your therapeutic relationship like?

20. Did you have a way to explain away the dissociation to yourself or others? (“I feel like I’ve never belonged”, “I’m just super forgetful” ect)

21. When you feel safe sharing about your parts with someone, which part is the “easiest” to introduce/explain about?

22. Do you have any parts that feel almost opposite to you?

23. Do any of your parts have a different sensory experience to you overall?

24. Do you have an inner world? Whether you do or not, what would be a safe space for your parts?

25. Do you know what your parts look like? If so, how do you visualize them?

26. How do your parts present in person? Is it externally noticeable you think?

27. Has anyone ever told you something you did or said without you knowing?

28. How long have you known about your parts? Comparing since then to now, what all’s changed?

29. How many known parts do you have, if you can count?

30. Here’s your prompt to ramble about something parts-related you haven’t had a chance to share!

[bunnidid-reviews]

Hi! This time, I've found a gay novel about DID that will get released next month: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/693186

This is awesome!!!!!!!! Thank you for linking it to me, I’ll see if I can get a hang on it somehow!

[bunnidid-reviews]

I havent finished this book, but I think it will be easy to and I’ll be happy to share more when I do, but this is a book that my counselor lent me to read:

It’s the Child Sexual Abuse Resource Guide by Carolyn Spring, under the PODS organization (positive outcomes for dissociative survivors)

It is direct and succinct in its wording, but not harsh. Its suitable I think for both survivors of childhood sexual abuse and those supporting them or working with them. Theres a lot of good information and personal experiences shared. Personally, its helping me reshape my feelings about shame and denial and where to put the blame for what happened to me

Its a short book, and looking it up its very cheap also, so if you can I def recommend it

[bunnidid-reviews]

I have a rec for you! Please check out Pipe Up, a webcomic by Salt And Pepper Bunny! It's a story about a system navigating their life after their ANP goes dormant. It's really sweet and thoughtful so far!

I just went and read all of it from your recommendation, and its AMAZING! Its such a cute style, and theres some real depth to this story and the characters. I love that there is a story before the story takes place, it adds so much to the feeling of looking in on someone’s life when they feel like they don’t belong in it

Everybun please check this out here, its so awesome!! Give the creator some love :D its still being updated from the looks of things, so you know I’ll be 👀

Pipe Up! - Overview

Edit: they have a tumblr too, go check out @pipeupcomic !!!!!!