Welcome! The Dissociative Disorders Alliance (The DDA) is a new charity being set up by and for people living with complex dissociative disorders, their allies and professionals working in the field.
The DDA’s vision is for an improved quality of life, healing and recovery for people in the UK living with a complex dissociative disorder. The DDA aims to achieve this by:
- developing clear, accessible and lived experience led information and resources,
- developing supportive and empowering peer led initiatives,
- improving awareness, understanding and quality of care among health and social care practitioners and,
- developing alliances with other national and international practitioners and charities, working alongside them to improve outcomes for people living with complex dissociative disorders.
This is our temporary website. We are currently working hard to develop content that is led by and centred around our collective lived experience. We want to represent the broadest group of voices and experiences as is possible, and aim to honour and amplify the many marginalised intersections in our community. In time, The DDA will be reaching out to ask the community to share their experiences with us.
If you would like to stay up to date about this and The DDA’s progress and activities in other areas please email us at theddaglobal@gmail.com giving us permission to add your name to our mailing list. If you have one, please also add us to your safe senders list. For previous updates, please see the ‘updates’ section at the top of this page.
If you have skills you would like to share to help The DDA achieve its vision, we would love to hear from you! We're also actively looking to fill several specific roles as detailed here. Please contact us at the same address: theddaglobal@gmail.com.
We hope to be somewhere you can turn to in the near future, until then we have found the following information and resources helpful:
- Carolyn Spring
- Clinic for Dissociative Studies
- Clinic for Trauma And Dissociation
- Mind
- NHS
- Rethink
- Survivors Trust
- The Pottergate Centre
For someone to talk or type to:
- Samaritans (Call: 116 123 or email: jo@samaritans.org)
- NAPAC (0808 801 0331 - Monday to Thursday 10am - 9pm, Friday 10am - 6pm)
Thank you for visiting!