Authors: 1) Dr Sarah Parry, corresponding author s.parry@mmu.ac.uk; 2) Dr Mike Lloyd; 3) Dr Jane Simpson 1 Department of Psychology, 3.11 Brooks Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M15 6GX, UK 2 Vale House Resource Centre, High St, Winsford CW7 2AS3 3 Division of Health Research Faculty of Health and Medicine, C39Furness College, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YG Acknowledgements Foremost, we would like to thank the inspiring women who generously shared their experiences; we are so grateful and thankful for your stories and time. We would also like to thank ESTD-UK for their guidance and the networks, as well as individual therapists who helped inform people about this project. Finally, we would like to thank C. Brooks, D. Khaffaf, T. McGarry, J, Nairn and M. Berry for their helpful insights around the analysis. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. “It’s not like you have PSTD with a touch of dissociation”: Insights into Dissociative Identity Disorder through First Person Accounts