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Cancer is scary but they caught it early and they are experts at helping with cancer! 🖤 Sending you good vibes.

Wishing you a speedy recovery. You are in my prayers. In the merit of the healing and comfort you offer us, may God heal you. With love and appreciation, Haya

I was a RN for 35 years, and took care of a lot of people who had prostate surgeries. They did very well. My cousin's husband had his prostate cancer removed, about 10 years ago, and he's doing great. I'll be thinking of you as you get this on the run.

I'm confused by what she says, and Dr Lloyd agrees with, that because she sees autism as a biological reality of her brain, than it would follow that all parts/alters would also be autistic, because that's how her brain is and they're in the same brain. One of the hallmarks of DID is that different alters can have fundamentally different biology, such as diabetes, anaphylactic allergies, including different neurology such as seizures or narcolepsy. Why would it be different for autism? Second, it is not established scientific fact that autism is a fundamental brain state that is inborn and unchangeable, that is an aspect of a number of popular theories, but there is quite a lot of published evidence to the contrary, so using that idea as a "fact" to base other "factual" assertions on can lead to problems down the road.

My father in law just had his prostate removed and had a very, very similar story to yours- same tests, same results, same shell shock. He just got news that though the cancer was aggressive, they got it ALL. 🙌🏻 You have been a beacon of light to my family during my DID diagnosis and I hope my FIL’s story can be a beacon of hope for yours. Much love from Ohio! 🫶🏻

Thank you for all you do, Dr. Lloyd. Wishing you peace & strength for 2025. You are loved!

Dear Dr. Lloyd, I'm so sorry about your diagnosis. I pray to God that you're in great medical hands & that you recover 100%. Know you're loved & in my thoughts! God's blessings to you & your family! Please keep us posted on your progress & recovery journey. You're very strong & brave. Thank you for your vulnerability. You touched my heart. Love & healing thoughts from Vancouver, Canada! ❤🙏🌺💕

I went down the Exposure path and gave it all I have. It helped with some of the surface symptoms, so helped with stabilisatio. but seems to have made some of the deeper issues even harder to heal.

I was referred to my current therapist by another therapist who I now look back and realize she was struggling with me, and trying not to abandon me. She referred me for EMDR, specifically. This therapist said let's not rush into EMDR, by the way I like your parts, let's get to know them. It's 2.5 years later, we haven't done a wink of anything I was referred for, nor ever once uttered a fragment of anything traumatic I went through, my parts are all in tact (and grateful) and I am functioning better than ever. The relationship is everything.

My dissociative reaction of flashbacks occurred after I endured a traumatic event in the daytime that triggered the disorder known as dissociative amnesia. The nighttime cue that triggered my flashbacks into happening was witnessing shocking ligature marks in my bathroom mirror.

praying 🙏🏾

Trauma can wreck your adrenal glands. Anyone feeling constantly exhausted get your cortisol levels checked asap! I found a functional medicine doctor that finally identified this through bloodwork and neurotransmitter testing.

Praying for you

Sending you lots of love and praying for a full recovery

Something some of my littles struggle with is that they were in the dark about all of the bad stuff. Christmas was the most reliable time every year to get love and attention. It was the best part of the year for them. Grandparents who loved them and saw them were present. And parents were present and attentive for once. So the holidays are very hard for them, because they desperately want to see our parents; they simply aren't aware of all of the bad things that happened. They just want to see their parents and make them happy. Could someone please help me address them? Telling them that it's 2024 and things have changed doesn't exactly help them (though it will help in other situations!).

We all love you, Dr. Mike! You've helped us understand our condition amidst all of the misinformation online, and you've even helped my therapist, who watches your videos. We all talk about what a gift you are to the community on the dissociative subreddits. We'll all be pulling for you on your journey to beat cancer's @ss!!! 🫂 💥 💪

Question i recently started trauma therapy and im really anxious if i get, dont know the word for it in english but like affect seizures. Is i commen to have this and what do i do not to get to that state? Hope you have a nice New year. Lots of love from Sara,sweden

When I became aware of my CPTSD, I spent many years trying everything under the sun. Mace Energy Healing and learning German New Medicine was most helpful. While GNM makes me aware of how trauma affects health from a physiological perspective, allowing greater patience with the healing process of working through what I do remember, Mace Energy provides a way to diminish the impact from identities I assigned myself in order to function. I think there must be a delicate balance for allowing a trickle approach to exposing the layers of abuse while integrating awareness around how exactly the body keeps the score. Now, I can visualize that sometimes I need to compartmentalize and move very slowly through unwinding my psyche, while still remaining functional within the myriad of land mines life still creates. ❤

Surely it should be possible to have a light probe with an extremely bright flash with complex deciphering of reflections which highlight inconsistencies in the prostate indicating potential cancers.

Is there any chance you would be able to share the transcripts of your videos? It would greatly help the accessibility of taking notes!!

Is the CTAD clinic inundated with animals?? The actual dream 🥲

We haven’t yet thought about self healing our phobias because our automatonophobia (triggered by a visit to the Thackeray museum of medicine and surgery as a young child! Would not advise, it is not appropriate for young children, especially with trauma) isn’t typically triggered in our daily life (mannequins barely trigger, thank god), but we have a phobia of flying bugs (triggers bad hypervigilance) and spiders too; we live alone so through long term exposure (spiders in the uk can’t actually kill us!) and our cats being wonderful insect and spider hunters, we are doing okay with those. We have also gone through ERP therapy to treat OCD, so we have had experience with this and continue to manage our irrational fears using this technique. But our spider fear is hereditary! Both our mother and father have a fear of them. Very interesting to hear your experience. Maybe we will work towards visiting the Madame Tussaud’s museum (a past visit to the Thackeray museum didn’t go so well) to try and completely immerse ourselves! Congratulations on your achievement! That was incredibly brave of you :3

I actually noticed this within my partner systems alters, and mine before even watching this video! I think you’re completely correct!!

Dear Dr. Mike, health issues are always so scary and this is clearly a real shock for you. I hope the doctors will be able to recommend a healpful treatment and restore you to full good health. Thank you for sharing in the best interests of other men who may face a similar challenge, and know that you are always in our prayers!

hi dr mike! i haven't commented on any of your videos yet i think but i'm so sorry to hear about this news. i've watched your videos for a while and recommended them to my friends- they've been integral to my healing journey for many reasons, including my own difficulty with staying in therapy. it seems that our bodies don't like to wait until we're "old enough" for these things to happen... i recently had a health scare of my own and i think the only thing that kept me feeling sane was the kindness of the healthcare providers and strangers i encountered. i hope that everyone you meet on this journey treats you with dignity, respect, and compassion. i hope that your journey leaves you cancer-free, or god be willing, at least in a more stable place than where you're beginning. i wish you love, light, and happiness always. i will keep you in both my thoughts and my prayers

Dr Mike, thank you for for sharing your life with us. So many of us share ours with you. You’ve given so many hope here and a reason to seek help. Ty for continuing to teach and educate and also show it’s very ok to reach out to others for support. Know of my prayers for you and yours.

I was diagnosed with Adhd. Maked not sense. Sometimes I had adhd, sometimes not. Now, after 6 years I understand my chaotic brain.

Very, very helpful - awesome helpful!

Dear Dr. Lloyd, I was dx four years ago at age 48. Finding your videos was incredibly helpful for me in understanding this disorder. Your compassion and kindness shine through in everything you do and I admire you so much. I am very sorry that you are facing this disease and I will be praying for you every morning as you courageously battle this insidious disease. Though I’ve never met you, I have grown so fond of you through your helpful videos on DID. I pray you will be surrounded by love and support while you walk through this difficult situation. Thank you for bravely sharing this news with us.

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Sending you much love! 💙

Praying for you, and will continue till you come through.❤

Thank you for this video. The topic doesn’t impact me as I’m a lesbian and have no connections with any men currently. But this video means a lot…perhaps especially because of the work you do. We’re all taught to compartmentalize our lives, especially between personal and professional. For people like me, with DID, that compartmentalization went to an extreme level in order to survive. Preaching to the choir, I know. This video is as educational as all your other videos, in my mind. I’m struggling to find a way to express my thoughts and feelings here, so please forgive me. I learned that survival required extreme compartmentalization. You are teaching by example that sometimes survival requires being a whole - and maybe even messy - person. For me, that’s very powerful. I never had permission to do that. For me/my system, I don’t think we can ever have enough models of being a whole human being in living color - with pain, fear, frustration, gratitude, and everything else combined. I hope that makes sense. On a different note, I really resonate with your experience and just want to say that I care. I’m physically disabled with a genetic connective tissue disorder (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome). 5 years ago, my spine was deemed basically normal (after a 3 hour MRI - and I’m claustrophobic). 3 years ago, an MRI of my hip caught part of my lumbar spine, and it was discovered that I had advanced degenerative disc and facet disease. In April, it was discovered that my spine - which had always been straight as an arrow - now has scoliosis and is rapidly degrading. I was not given any viable treatment options, and the pain is so severe that I’m now a full time power wheelchair user. I’m (over)sharing all this to say that I can really relate to the shock and fear. How did this happen? What will happen next? Where will I be in a year? Can I survive this? For how long? Does anyone even get what I’m experiencing? This may be a mess of a comment that I/we might delete, but please continue to share your journey. Your expertise is valuable, no doubt, but so is your lived experience. Sending support and positive energy from the USA. ❤️‍🩹

I know I've definitely got cptsd with maladaptive daydreaming, but there's growing questions about OSDD or pDID. I can never decide if researching is a good idea, or if it'll shape and poison my responses on the rare occasions I do see a therapist 😢

You will be OK... Take care of yourself (and the sweet ducks) as you always do... You will be OK. I will certainly keep you in my thoughts as I always have. Just as your father was *you will* be OK.

My grandfather had the same diagnosis and lived happily until 99 years old. Sending you strength and health and support on your healing journey. Thank you for sharing such tender news with us. You will beat this!

Sending all the light and love and energy for your healing. Time for us to support YOU!

Hi Mike, so sorry that you are going through this and received your news over the festive period. You are physically strong and emotionally attuned with so much love and respect around you. Parts of you will feel scared and confused, others brave and defiant - make space for all those feelings and remember that they are all welcome here. Draw on the parts that will drive your recovery. Sending you love, strength, and healing energy from your colleagues at Notts Healthcare.

So sorry to hear this. Wishing you and your family much strength for the struggles ahead and hoping you receive expert, compassionate, and most of all successful treatment. 💜 We appreciate your videos and all you do for the D.I.D community.

Also, thank you so much for sharing this with us. Thank you for talking about this and being so open. I appreciate you, Doctor.

I am praying for you, that you receive quality and timely treatment, and that you heal fully and continue to live a healthy and happy life. I will continue to pray for you and your health. Sending you so much love ❤️

So sorry to hear what you are going through. 😕 Your videos have educated me as well as my family and friends so much so thank you. No idea if you will see this or will be doing more videos anytime soon but something I don’t see much on and would like to understand because of how scary and confusing it can be is DID and hallucinations. Just an idea I thought I would throw out there. Have a wonderful day!

Sending much love and sincere prayers ❤

In my experience the NHS, the effects of child abuse are often just labelled as bipolar, schizophrenia/ schizo effective disorder, chronic depression and anxiety etc and medicated. Family generational trauma also means other family denial and shame of effects means I am scapegoat for not keeping up appearances and so perpetuating at least emotional abuse and neglect on others. That is why I fought the system to find out after 15 years accepting NHS treatment, then another 10 years of various private therapy to then fight my GP to get referred to the Maudsley traumatic stress service. In 2017, after first informing NHS psychiatrists and GPs about my experiences and effects of child abuse, I was diagnosed with CPTSD and DD. I have aleays been conscious of different parts of my personality split off but this was never investigated or recognised by psychiatrists or therapists I paid for from child abuse survivor charities. I now feel memories of how I felt as a boy and am learning slowly to integrate various parts of my personality split off to survive sexual, physical and emotional abuse from my Dad using various methods especially gestalt and Internal Family Systems therapy.

This might be a very obvious question, but I’ve struggled with dissociation for as long as I can remember. However, I don’t have very much memory of trauma… I can admit my family is dysfunctional, but the lack of memory of anything “significant” has always been an insecurity for me when seeking help. Especially the fear that I’ll be invalidated or not believed. Is dissociation always a result of trauma? Are there other causes? I love this channel. It’s such an important resource! Thank you for the work you do

It's been months since I first realized I have the symptoms of a complex dissociative disorder & went to my therapist about them... I started off strong, but then the exhaustion & avoidance overwhelmed me, so I took a lengthy break from therapy. I want to start again - I know that I need to. When I'm ready to start the healing process again, I think I'm going to try signposting to let everyone know that everything will be okay... Because I know it will be, despite the discomfort.

Happy Christmas and New Year. Relax and enjoy Mike with a cuppa and a slice of Christmas cake . 🍰❤ 😊. X

I've never commented on someone's video before. But I really felt like I wanted to reach out, as the channel has been so helpful to me, with all the content, and even showing me that it's ok to be vulnerable too 😊. I'm so sorry to hear your news, and hope you get some good care and rest, and able to spend some time with the cats and ducks!

We're so sorry to hear the news Dr Mike! You and the CTAD team gave us the chance to talk and be heard and for the first time in our life we have a direction for recovery. We're sending all the good vibes and positivity your way in your own recovery journey 💜

Sending love❤. Your truly an amazing person and we just want to honour that even now your focus is on helping others. We really wish you peace and healing We hope you are able to take great care of yourself too