Summary
Eva May shares her deeply personal journey living with complex PTSD and dissociative identity disorder (DID) in the UK, where these conditions receive little recognition or proper treatment. After 33 years of searching for appropriate help, she finally found specialist care at London’s Clinic for Dissociative Studies, though her medication hasn’t been reviewed in seven years since her initial diagnosis in the United States. Throughout her candid discussion, Eva explores her struggles with anger management and how everyday situations can trigger intense emotional responses due to her trauma history. She reveals how simple acts of inconsideration, like parking disputes at her gym, can escalate into overwhelming anger because her brain cannot process why people choose to hurt or inconvenience others – mirroring her childhood confusion about abuse.