A lot of people think 6 Feet is metaphorically about the “call of the void”. It is not.

It is, very literally, about living with OSDD-1b. I did not know I had it when I wrote the song. Writing it & talking about the song with my therapist lead me to get officially diagnosed. https://twitter.com/leftatlondon/status/1202828276772683776

If you don’t know what OSDD-1b (Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder) is, it is one of the modern terms for “Multiple Personality Disorder.” It is very similar to DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), except often with less dissociative amnesia.

It is because of this that the person on the cover of 6 Feet is, technically, not actually me. That’s an alter (which is a term used to refer to the other people in a DID/OSDD-1b brain). That’s why I made that picture the cover.

I experienced symptoms since 2017. I denied it for so long. When I found out I had it, I was scared. But I’m trying not to be scared anymore.

I may talk about it more in the future, but I feel like I should share this now because it’s been a major facet of my life.

Having a highly stigmatized mental illness, especially in these times, is scary. All I can do right now is to just let those people struggling know there are people who understand who are out there. I hope my openness can help in some way.

Oh! As an addendum; if any systems were curious, I (Nat) am pretty consistently fronting atm so im probably gonna be the only one posting. Although one time, an alter posted this lol https://twitter.com/leftatlondon/status/1184267081333624832?s=21 https://twitter.com/leftatlondon/status/1184267081333624832