21 strangers: 21 personalities birthed from trauma and nurtured by life

A fragmented mind on its way to recovery anonymously chronicles Jax’s life and challenges with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly called multiple identity disorder. The condition is contradictory; despite her deep sense of gratitude for the protection this disorder offered her, she carries the shame of not facing the trauma head on. Although she is blessed with countless members of her own found family, each of these people know only one part of her compartmentalized mind. Yet d...