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Maggie Walters: I Have Dissociative Identity Disorder - Motherhood Helped Me Heal

You’re Gonna Want To Hear This

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Maggie Walters has lived a life most people could barely comprehend. Diagnosed in her twenties with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, Maggie came to understand that her mind had created different parts, or “alters”, to help her survive severe childhood trauma.

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