Reading mystery books.

[Cammy]

When. I'm struggling with offshoots of my DID such as severe anxiety or depression, I can't bring myself to read at all. Instead, I use the TV and watch the most innocuous non-triggering plonk that I can find. This is usually cooking shows or those awful picking out the perfect dress shows. I love history, but if I watch too much stuff on WWII, the suffering totally gets to me and I end up worse off than when I started.

My husband also has DID. He reads a LOT - usually historical war chronicles, but mostly stuff describing military hardware and how it works. When he does watch TV, it is almost all fantasy stuff and cartoons. Having had such an incredibly traumatic childhood, I clearly see now how he completely indulges his littles with the cartoons, Disney movies, and superhero animated shows. He really dislikes sports and can't watch anything where there is any sort of physical or psychological a**se involved. That pretty much means he can't watch the war documentaries that I enjoy. Fortunately we have solved the problem by having 2 TV rooms in the house. If an outsider were to observe us, they would immediately see that something was 'not right' with us, especially with a grown man so involved in children's cartoons. From a DID perspective, however, it all makes perfect sense.