Season 1: Episode 46 - (T. Warning) Victor's lifetime of abuse that led to a - "Class of Characters" History of DID & entities created

Victor provides us with the history of the horrific abuse he faced growing up and provides the scenario and basis for his multiple personality disorder and multiple, ‘characters,’ surfacing in his life.

I have included the order of documents to be read, as he sent them to me:

1.       My essay entitled “IsHopeAStrategy-IDontKnowYouTellMe”-Rev1 – explains my experiences for the last 55 weeks

2.       Email to my circle of care “A quick note” – perhaps a long one too – explains my experiences, the consequences and reflections

3.       My essay entitled “IamSorry-thedoublesidedrazorblade”-Rev1 – explains my position of hearing “I am sorry”  Please understand I know it is a form of empathy, yet after the continued fight with the Ontario Canada MHA system over the last 5 years… I have heard this statement too many times.

Below I have included links to his podcast interview and published essay about living with DID, as he sent them to me.

1.       Podcast Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDOjA-mW7i0

2.       Published Essay: https://weareunsinkable.com/living-with-dissociative-identity-disorder-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

Characters: “Entities during dissociation”

1. Harris - Destructive, own email address, emails circle of care.

2. Victor -

3. The Poet - Manager and communicator of all personalities. Dissociative poetry author

4. Little Victor - 1st traumatic experience

5. Little Victor - 2nd Suicide attempt 4-10 years old

6. (Suicide Attempts) other suicide attempts have one identity for each

7. X - He has no idea who he is

8. The Beast - Pure violence, animalistic and beats up self

9. Management - No idea who this is.

   Many more, he states he has about 13 entities that present themselves at various times.

Twitter: @VictorJanzen

Podcast link

Watch on : iTunes

Season 1: Episode 45 - Doug - Canadian "THC Potent Drug" beware

Abby, another victim of THC Potent Drug from smoking daily for a short period of time. Thankfully her father intervened.

Doug, her father, reached out to share her story as a worried dad and mental THC awareness advocate for parents. Listening to him discuss the the experience they had with hospitals to gain admittance and help for drug induced or mental health impaired individuals. If you’ve ever experienced this, it’s heart wrenching on all sides, especially with someon over age. Abby was 18 years old and this also happened to me with my son and my sister.

If you find any part of this podcast helpful or meaningful, reach out or comment. We all need to share our stories. Doug reaches out and helps kids on a regular basis. He’s spoken to me about a few and he cares deeply.

Abby was having psychotic episodes due to the THC potency. She was given anti-psychotics.

Doug can be found and is active on Twitter:

@no2potentTHC

Podcast link

Abby, we are grateful you are home and well.

Season 1: Episode 58 - Elle aka "The Spider Lady"

Elle graces us with her delightful demeanor. She’s an artist in true form from her pop culture videos, to her artwork. Stay tuned, she her own podcast coming to share paranormal stories from people that have experienced them.

Here’s more information and links from her site:
She is a young artist, youtuber, and writer living with ADHD, DPRD, and depression. She cycles between three types of content:

• Youtube videos about the intersection between pop culture and mental health

• Writing about asexuality and advocacy (usually on Medium, but I am hoping to expand to other platforms)

• Vlogs pertaining to mental health and queer things, such as reviewing queer media, my own gray ace/demisexual experiences, and reviewing asexuality in pop culture

She still creates art, but her patreon is not focused around it anymore. If you look through old posts, you'll be able to see it.

These post types are cycled from week to week. For example, week one would be a youtube video for my main channel, the next week would be asexuality & aromantic advocacy, and the third week would be a vlog.

You can also keep up to date with her on Twitter, where she’s often active.

She appreciates your support of her work.

Podcast: link

Patreon - patreon.com/secretladyspider

Ko-fi- ko-fi.com/secretladyspider 

Twitter- Twitter.com/scretladyspider 

Medium - https://link.medium.com/qFLs1SEdJab 

YouTube Main - YouTube.com/secretladyspider 

YouTube Vlogs - YouTube.com/secretladyspidervlogs 

Instagram main - Instagram.com/secretladyspider 

Art Instagram - Instagram.com/secretladyspiderartist 

Season 1 - Episode 41 - Michael Maisey shares his life's journey, why he wrote his book, " Young Offender," after a young life in the streets and out of control

Michael was lost, in the streets and out of control, due to his parents drug and alcohol abuse, as well as childhood physical and sexual abuse. But, he turned his life around and now Michael Maisey is an actor and writer, known for Sparrow's Call, The Basement and Functional. He has been married to Sacha Wright since October 26, 2018. They have two children.

• He participates in #TimeForChange Campaign in London.

• Warrior Within Men’s Retreat in 2018

He tells more of his story in his book: “My Life on the Streets, In Prison, Out of Control, Making Amends. Young Offender.” Pre order link for book on amazon.co.uk out in July 2019.
Pre order link for the book on amazon.com for buyers in the USA out October 2019.

Website: https://linktr.ee/mistermaisey

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mistermaisey/

Podcast link

You don’t want to miss this episode. He’s a powerful warrior and proof that anyone can turn their life around. We’ve all been through hard times, but he faced his hopelessness, near the edge of suicide, in it’s clenches and came out the other side. He’s been a ray of sunshine through his Instagram community and other engagements. I can’t wait to get and read his book. I look forward to working with Michael in the near future.

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Robbie Spencer - Nami speaker - 10/25/18

Robbie shares his experience and thought on humanizing mental illness. He shares his story and experience speaking on the issue of mental illness to help humanize it world-wide. He himself was near taking his own life and after the news of his friends taking their lives, he devoted his cause to help raise awareness and to end the discrimination mental illness sufferers face.

Robbie is a speaker for NAMI.

Podcast link

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Paul McGregor - Author and Speaker - 10/9/18

Author Paul McGregor discusses the issue of suicide as it pertains to his coping with the loss of his father to suicide, in an effort to raise awareness. We open-dialogue about the needs in the world in the face of suicidal statistics, making a difference and reducing the stigma and labels.

Ask twice is a campaign, led by others, but joined by Paul McGregor. The idea is to ask twice about how someone is doing, especially if they appear to be suicidal. Most often than not, the second attempt will divulge the true feelings of someone near taking their life. This is a world-wide movement. The statistics of men that lose their lives to suicide is currently:

The annual age-adjusted suicide rate is 13.42 per 100,000individuals.

• Men die by suicide 3.53x more often than women.

• On average, there are 123 suicides per day.

• White males accounted for 7 of 10 suicides in 2016.

• Firearms account for 51% of all suicides in 2016.

• The rate of suicide is highest in middle age — white men in particular.

  Taken from https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

His book, Man Up, Man Down is available on Amazon, check it. Please subscribe to the show, DM A New Dawn on Instagram to be on the show and rate us. We want to raise mental health awareness world wide. #suicide #podcast #mentalhealthawareness #worldmentalhealthday2018 #Pmcgregor #advocacy #depression #anxiety #endthestigma

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