Well, I just got back from the movies - went to watch Where the Wild Things Are. I thought it would just be a cute kids movie - which I love. So I was astounded to find it was actually a very smart child psychology film! Even more, it could be viewed as a Dissociative event!

Anyway, this movie shows in amazing clarity what it is like for me anyway when I was a child and dissociated. You don't know at the start what is really happening. Then you go inside and face the things you need to face. Then you know how to get home when it is safe for you and you made some sense of your world. I think most kids do this anyway, but with DID you just don't forget how to do it - or it is like we get stuck somehow and end up in splitsville. Either way, I was left going "WOW! SOMEONE GOT IT RIGHT!" And esp with the whole anger part too!!! Having to face that inner rage.

I laughed so hard watching the boy howling. Yes. I did that when I was a teen. Alter Mick did it I think!! :-) It was like shouting with your soul into the night and letting the pain and anger escape out! My folks used to HATE it when I would go outside to howl like that!!

So if you are one who does like to watch movies that gently shows what is so hard to put into words- this one might be for you.