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Information on healing mental illness through music and using a seam pressing template for quilt corners will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.)

Casey Jones has DID or Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder. She credits early childhood music lessons and continued practice with playing a key role in her surviving this disorder and thriving when growing up. She firmly believes that mental illness can be healed through music. Jones lives in Clovis.

Erica Plank has come up with a great tool for quilters — it’s a 9” seam pressing template that guarantees perfect corners every time. It is designed for seam pressing only, and you use a dry setting (not steam) on the iron. She’ll demonstrate its use while making a Cathedral Window quilt block. She lives in Puyallup, Washington.

Information on making and using continuous bias strips for welt cording and using essential oils for perfumery will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at noon and on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Pam Damour will show how to make continuous bias strips, turn them into perfect welt cords, and then show how to apply them to different projects. Damour is from Champlain, New York.

Kris Wrede is an aromatic alchemist and natural perfumer. She will explain what essential oils and base oils are and tell why they are ideal for various skin types. She’ll show how to use them for a beautiful glowing appearance. Wrede is from Albuquerque.

What is dissociative identity disorder

Dissociative Identity Disorder occurs when the child's brain experiences life threatening torture at an early age. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual used in the USA and much of the world states that:

Two or more distinct personalities are present, at least two personalities recurrently take control, furthermore, the person has major lapses in memory too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness and the alternate personalities can’t be explained away by substance abuse, black-outs or medical conditions such as seizures.

Severe abuse causes areas of the brain to die or become deformed, making it primed for mental disorders. The hippocampus and the amygdala are deformed on the left side in abused children. People with extensive hippocampal damage may experience the inability to form or retain new memories. It also plays important roles in long-term memory. One of the early signs of Alzheimer’s is a damaged hippocampus. Amygdala stores the emotions (such as fear) of our memories. This may explain why some victims suffer with repressed memories.

Another cause of brain damage due to abuse is extreme neglect. A shocking comparison of brain scans from two three-year-old children reveals new evidence of the remarkable impact a mother's love has on a child's brain development. The alarming images of a normal 3-year-old is significantly larger and contains fewer spots and dark "fuzzy" areas than the brain of a 3-year-old who has suffered extreme neglect.

Neurologists say that these images provide more evidence that the way children are treated in their early years is important not only for the child's emotional development, but also in determining the size of their brains. This can be somewhat reversed if love and nurturing are added to the child’s environment. And training music can be used to stimulate and revive areas that have been damaged.

“Creative Living” is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations in the United States, Canada, Guam and Puerto Rico and is distributed by Westlink, Albuquerque.