A Brief, Vague-ish Note About 2025 (Or, hello again ...again)
It's hard to believe it's 2026. The next Healing Together conference is already soon, this will be my 3rd year attending, and it'll be the 2nd time I'm frustrated that I haven't told any of my/our story. Reading or watching other people's stories of making it through hard times has helped me, and I've wanted to be able to offer the same for others. I've wanted that since back when I thought I just had depression with some odd extra bells (I say "just depression," but depression is a hell in itself). I've wanted it more since finding out that over 70% of people with DID attempt suicide. It's no wonder with how stigmatized this condition is, amongst "regular" people and psych professionals alike. I want to be like the others before me that have told their story without glamorization or demonization, and show that a life worth living with DID is possible.
To be fair, my life is still complex (I mean, the world is basically on fire), and I didn't really know what some of my/our story was until 2025. It ended up being another year I needed to prioritize helping myself/myselves above all else just to survive the year (maybe that's life, actually?). But this time, what resulted was different.
2025 changed us internally so much for the better, despite being a horrible, incredibly stressful, shitbag-on-fire kind of year. There were traumatic happenings on both a personal and societal level, to the point that 4 of ourselves came to be in 2025. And in addition to the newly existing selves, we met at least one of ourselves that had been there but we hadn't known about until that point (we'd actually just met a couple more of ourselves in 2024 as well). But, even given all that, our understanding of ourselves changed radically, our internal communication became much smoother (for the most part), and our life makes much more sense now. Even though some of what we learned was terrible and painful, knowing is a relief.
You can't work through problems if you don't know what they are.
And knowing what they are allows you to help your others, or to examine your own habits and beliefs or whatever other loop you might be stuck in as an individual part of yourself.
I thought I was going to delete the angry rant one (or more? I honestly don't know) of us posted in 2025, but I looked at it and realized, yeah, I stand by it. Also, a lot of details in there I don't remember us blogging about back then, but, I guess that's to be expected.
I hope to tell you what we've learned, and to express myself more, and for all of me to be able to be ourselves on this blog.
Right now, I'm working on a list of introductions, something brief to describe each of us on the About Me/Us page, give each of us a chance to say something. I hope to have it out real soon. But, in reference to that, I want you to know that this is Evelyn.