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” Harris - Destructive, own email address, emails circle of care. Victor - The Poet - Manager and communicator of all personalities. Dissociative poetry author Little Victor - 1st traumatic experience Little Victor - 2nd Suicide attempt 4-10 years old (Suicide Attempts) other suicide attempts have one identity for each X - He has no idea who he is The Beast - Pure violence, animalistic and beats up self Management - No idea who this is. Many more, he states he has about 13 entities that present themselves at various times. Twitter: @VictorJanzen

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 Abby, we are grateful you are home and well.

John, from the Road to Mental Wellness, joins us for a second update on how he's been. He discusses his new podcast and enlightens us on where he is with his book. He focuses on 'men's health,' and how we can find commonalities between the genders or even those that are binary. We discuss 'covid coma' a bit, please enjoy.

John of "The Bipolar Battle" podcast and mental health advocate on Twitter joins us with his story. He describes his family as coming from the thought of 'mind over matter,' to get over struggles. He's living with Bipolar disorder and emphasizes the idea to 'embrace your journey,' as you live with mental illness. If you would like to follow him you can reach him on Twitter. Twitter: @BipolarBattle Website: thebipolarbattle.com Author of http://amzn.to/3dwkcVc

Luke from the UK shares his journey of mental illness. Please check out his blog at Discusslife.net.

Sharon is a mental health advocate, Emergency Management Field Officer, OFMEM, social worker, disaster responder, volunteer and also a speaker. She lives with PTSD, CPTSD, MDD and OCD and childhood trauma revealed itself in her early twenties. She tells her story beautifully and reveals how 'brushing under the rug,' doesn't help when it comes to childhood trauma. Her story, like many here, is one of hope, survival and recovery. She writes in her blog, PTSDstoriesfromtheedge.com and you can find her on Twitter and Face book. Listen, comment and reach out if you'd like to tell your story. Podcast link: Link Site: PTSD Stories from the Edge Twitter: @SDBak Facebook: (coming soon)

Cameron returns for Season 3 where we get an update on his mental health, since our last episode and open the conversation about diversity in the world and the Covid19 pandemic. #compathy is something we discuss, based on emersing someone into other cultures to help break down the walls of racism. Thoughts about this can be heard in the episode, check it out.

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. 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

Skip, a 26 year veteran, physician, author, speaker and MH advocate for individuals suffering depression. His message is prodominately for men, but we also were inspired by his story and it touched out lives too. See our website for links to his social media; https://www.anewdawnaa.com/.

Evan Whitehead, M.Ed @EvanWhitehead00, Nat'l Consultant/Certified Trainer of the @ahaprocess /Dist. Administrator/Educational Consultant/Mental Health Advocate. Building Capacity 2 Achieve Sustainability! It was a pleasure to speak with him and I support all of this efforts, which mimic my efforts in many ways. Therapeutic day school crisis intervention experience, which began his journey into special education, social emotional learning in contained classes; similar to my son's experience in school as well. Academics are secondary to survival and existence in the face of trauma and he, as well as I, has tackled this head on. Please listen and reach out if you feel so compelled. www.strategicpm.us www.strategiclearningsolutions.com Twitter @evanwhitehead00 Voxer EW00 [email protected]