These are all things that worked for me. I'm not full DID based on the descriptions here. Somewhere between CPTSD and OSDD.

1. Journal. Write down what you do remember. Dont' change stuff other than spelling and grammar. But you can add stuff to it. Put a new date and a paragraph under the old entry.

2. I have a memory project. Trivia. Buying new couch. Old one moves downstairs. Painting the livingroom pale green. Watching Flipper and Lassie. I put down the year I think it happend, the lcoaiton and a brief description. I've got 400 entries.

3. Journal your flashbacks. Add as much detail as you can. Sometimes the emotional overload is too much, and you only get edge snippets. Wrte them down.

4. Journal your freudian slips. One of my slips after getting a compliment from my first T, "Your sense of humour is a good coping mechanism. I snapped back: "It's a defense mechanism. If I make my mom laugh she doesn't hit me."

5. Journal your dreams. You really need to have pen and pad right next to your bed. dreams vanish very fast. Most do anyway. But the nightmares can be revealing, and some of mine are unforgettable.

6. TRy to track down friends in the time span of the trauma or shortly after. They can tell you stories too. I found two friends who were 3.5 years old with me. Facebook school groups are where to start.

The goal here is to trigger associations. implicit memory (mammal memory) is all associative. For me the memory is a visual one. If I know the broad strokes, I can bring up an image, then I can ask questions about it. So my memory may be: "Sitting on a kitchen stool reading to my mom as she worked on supper" With that phrase, I can see the red liooleum counter tops, the 9" tiles peeling from the floor, the bright yellow walls with white trim, the black dial phone, the nicotine coating the walls.

And as I write these down, I can see Cindy, the dog, snurfling about looking for spills, and then remember that Cindy bit me.

I've got 400 of these. Keep working at them. And you trigger a deep association. That humnour is a defense mechanism was followed shortly after with my lucid dream about being slammed into walls.

Most don't mean a lot..

But they are markers. From age 7 to 14, when I think the physical abuse happened, very few events happen in the public areas of hte hosue. I think I spent most of those years hiding in the basement.