Dissociative Identity Disorder

Confusion about DID

Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID, has been widely misunderstood, not only by the world at large, but also by psychiatrists, psychologists, pastors, and prayer ministers. Even if these groups believe that DID exists, many are confused as to how to bring healing to those with the condition or become frustrated at the length of time it takes to heal. When Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) and/or various types of programming are also involved in causing a person to become DID, often the spiritual warfare and/or deprogramming becomes too complicated; it appears almost impossible to navigate. In order to help, it seems like someone would have to know every form of programming and every occult practice, deity, ritual, and more in order to undo all that has been done to people, most of which started even before they were born.

For people with DID, what was, as children, a God-given survival mechanism to live through the worst atrocities that can be committed against human beings, as adults, DID becomes a hindrance to living life as God intended it to be. Since people with DID have been shattered in their souls and spirits, they cannot fully give their whole hearts, souls, minds and strength to the Lord. They are divided and conflicted in their minds, wills, and emotions. Since they are divided, their true condition is often missed and they are, on average, misdiagnosed for up to ten years before discovering that dissociation is the main issue. Upon diagnosis, because DID is not thoroughly taught and understood by counselors and ministers, people are unable to find the help they need and suffer at the hands of those who most want to help them.

Who Is the Little Girl/Boy Who Was There at the Beginning?

Although DID is very complex in its presentation, especially if there is programming and/or rituals involved, the root issue is very simple, and that is what is important to keep in mind for both survivors and those trying to help. All work with people who have DID must be done with the WHOLE PERSON in mind. Although people will come for counseling and present as though they are different people, the therapist or minister’s job is to talk to the person as ONE, not many, and gradually help people to resolve the internal conflicts that have been there since the very first splitting happened so that they can come back into the state of wholeness that God initially breathed into them at their creation. This is the essence of who they are, the little girl/boy who was there at the beginning which has been protected by by the Lord under the layers of trauma and death which make up the entire DID system.

How Does DID Happen?

In order to really think this way, we need to look at how DID happens in the first place. To help understanding, we’ll use the following scenario:

God creates a little girl and releases her to be conceived in her mother’s womb. The little girl is a whole person, her essence is intact, the core of who God created her to be as a person. Next the girl is subjected to overwhelming trauma, not just once, but time and again. Under this trauma, a sort of soulical dissonance occurs where she is unable to reconcile what is happening to her and survive. For instance, bonding is an inherent need for children to be able to grow up healthy relationally. If the little girl’s father abuses her, she is caught in an irreconcilable conflict. She needs to believe her father loves her and is safe so that she can bond to him. However, he proves himself to be unsafe and unloving time and again.

To resolve this, God has provided a way for her to contain the conflict, protect the essence of who she is, thus allowing her to grow up into, usually, a highly functional adult. The anger and rage at the injustice of the abuse gets dissociated away into a part of her that rarely comes out because anger is not acceptable to express to her family. The pain of the abuse gets separated off into another part of her. The fear and sadness are also split off by amnesiac walls so that the essence of who she is (the little girl that God breathed into existence at conception and is also her new birth identity if she accepts Christ Jesus) is protected. In order to live and function every day at home and at school, she develops parts who can do those jobs and love her parents with no knowledge of the abuses that she has endured and is suffering from as she grows up.

Thus, the little girl grows into an adult who, in her everyday life, knows nothing of the abuses she grew up with. She often lives life idolizing her parents in one way or another, even while having some uncomfortable feeling, especially as she gets older, that something isn’t quite right. She will probably suffer with anxiety, depression, and phobias that she has no explanation for since her life was “good” with her parents growing up. She may also have unexplained physical ailments that come and go with no medical explanation, and find that medications mysteriously only sometimes work and at other times seem to have no effect whatsoever. All of these symptoms are rumblings of the rest of her person which has been dissociated away with little chance or opportunity to live in the present.

If there is satanic ritual abuse involved (SRA), then she would have been broken in her person by people who know how trauma affects children and structured in ways that serve Satan’s agenda for these last days, usually having thousands of parts.

Resolving the Conflict

In either case, the only way to bring wholeness is to help her to connect with her humanity once again and be willing to come into knowing the painful, helpless, and overwhelming events of her past. In addition, she will have to be willing to know and repent of the ways that she has hurt others in the midst of being dissociated. In all of this, the Lord is faithful: faithful to give her a way to survive the abuse, faithful to suffer with her through the abuse and to sustain her in it, and faithful to lead her to a place in Him where she is ready to face the devastation of her past, the idolatry in her heart, and the fullness of the life she has lived.

I love a quote from Pastor Doug Riggs, who is the man that the Lord used to help me and so many others heal from DID and be able to give ourselves fully to the Lord for the first time in our lives:

“What happens when the core person, right up front, is extracted from death, the core person released from death; the destruction of everything that maintains layered shields around that which is the new birth identity [the person the Lord breathed to life initially and accepted Christ Jesus]?

We need to go right into that new birth identity and release that and connect with that which is from 13 [years old] to the present that has been most cult-aligned [or in non ritual abuse cases, most angry (at God, others, self, all of the above)] and bring those two domains together as rapidly as possible.

‘Well, that’s too much – they can’t handle it!’ Well that’s too bad; God can handle it.

Are you going to lay hold of the grace of God and the fact that you are a Christian and you’ve been practicing idolatry [or sexual immorality, raging, stealing, etc.] all of your life, or do you need to be protected? 2 Cor. 9:8 – “God is able” – dunatos – He has unlimited power to “make all grace abound to you” – to be more than enough – so that you always and at all times and in all circumstances have the power for every good work. Every good work! More than enough!!

We haven’t even begun.” - Doug Riggs [explanation in brackets mine]

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