About Us
FPP is now closed but read on for alternative resources etc
After 26 years the charity First Person Plural – dissociative identity disorder association is now closed. This website https://www.firstpersonplural.org.uk/ will remain online as a legacy site for at least three years from 1st August 2023. It contains much information and resources. Please take the time to browse.
Additionally, The Survivors Trust (TST) Resources site https://www.tstresources.org/ includes much useful information. TST also provide a dissociation-infomed helpline 0808 801 0818.Ritual Abuse Network Scotland (RANS) provides services across the UK for a wider range of dissociative survivors than its name suggests. This long standing charity are the recipients of FPP’s Dissolution Legacy Fund, using it towards developing and delivering a new project “Plural Futures”. This will include a change of name of the charity to more accurately reflect its wider remit, a new website and the provision of forums and other services for those affected by trauma-related complex dissociation including DID, both those who have a known history of ritual abuse and those who do not. To find out more about this new project contact RANS on hello@rans.org.uk
ESTD-UK continues to offer specialist training in complex trauma, dissociation and attachment. Melanie Goodwin and Kathryn Livingston formerly of First Person Plural are highly respected and professional experts-by-experience trainers and they will continue the collaboration with ESTD-UK as independent trainers alongside the clinical professionals delivering ESTD-UK training . Enquiries about ESTD-UK training to training@estduk.org
About us (original before closure)
Founded in 1997 First Person Plural is one of the longest established UK organisations working specifically for and on behalf of people affected by complex dissociative identity disorders, i.e. Dissociative Identity Disorder – also known as Multiple Personality Disorder (DID/MPD), and DID-like Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified – now renamed Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (DDNOS/OSDD). It is the only UK membership charity specialising in this field. In 2014 it became a charitable incorporated organisation.
These dissociative identity disorders are possible long term consequences when children are subjected to repeated abuse or other traumas from a very young age, particularly when the trauma is extreme and continues over several months or, more commonly, years. A traumatised child may effectively use the universal, instinctive, human, coping strategy of dissociation to survive the horrors and terrors of their life. When this survival strategy has to be used frequently and/or over an extended period during the time when the child’s brain and personality is rapidly developing, dissociation shapes the way the child’s psycho-neurological systems develop leaving them at risk of experiencing one of the complex dissociative identity disorders in adulthood or adolescence, whether or not they are currently subject to ongoing trauma.
First Person Plural works to facilitate mutual support between our members. This is primarily through written and online resources but we also offer limited support to anyone considering setting up a face to face mutual support group for people with DID in their locality. Also for the wider public benefit we provide information, training and resources to support these activities e.g. training and information films and this website.
We pride ourselves on working collaboratively with other organisations who share our interests and ethos, in the firm belief that collaborative working is key to achieving common goals of improved and earlier recognition, together with effective, timely treatment and support services for all those affected by the dissociative identity disorders.
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