About Systems Connect
Systems Connect is a community of systems and the partners who love them.
We are people living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, people partnered to someone with DID, and the family and friends who stand with us. We gather here to witness each other, to share what has helped, and to remember that we are not alone in any of it.
What this site is not
Systems Connect is a peer community, not a clinical service. No one here provides therapy, assessment, diagnosis, or medical advice. We do not triage, refer, or treat. We are not a replacement for a therapist, a psychiatrist, a crisis line, or emergency services.
If you need clinical help, these are the lines designed to answer:
- 988 (call or text) for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
- Text HOME to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line
- 1-800-662-HELP for the SAMHSA helpline, free and confidential, twenty-four hours a day
- 911 for immediate physical emergencies
What this site is
A place where the ordinary work of living with DID can be seen and named by people who already understand. A place for partners to say the quiet parts out loud without being told they are exaggerating, romanticizing, or misunderstanding. A place to find a book, a poem, a drawing, or a research paper that reads closer to what you know than anything else has.
We believe that the people best qualified to sit with the experience of DID are the people living it. We believe partners deserve their own space, because the work of loving someone with DID is its own work. We believe that a community held by its own members is stronger than a community managed by experts.
A note on who we are
The site was built by Scott Beach, husband to a woman living with DID, pharmacist by training, author of Leading with Safety: A Husband's Guide to Loving a Wife with Dissociative Identity Disorder, and independent researcher behind the Beach Safety Hierarchy Assessment Scale (BSHAS). The site reflects what Scott wishes had existed when he was trying to understand his wife's experience for the first time.
It is funded out of pocket and, eventually, by small donations and voluntary platform fees on the member marketplace. We take no advertising. We do not sell data. We will never. If that ever changes, the first place it will be announced is here.
A note on language
Different systems use different language for themselves. You will see us use the word system often. If that word does not fit you, we want to know which one does. Our goal is to describe each member the way each member would describe themselves.
You are welcome here.