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Are you alone, isolated, or separated from your emotional support? Do you see these 8 triggers for DID survivors?

By Kathy Broady MSW 34 Comments

  During this extended time of "Shelter in Place," the COVID-19 quarantine processes, social distancing, closed borders, limited travel, worldwide lock-downs, millions of people, including dissociative trauma survivors, are required to stay home, unable to get out to their normal places of support and interaction. Right now, we are separated from and unable to meet with the people with whom we usually meet.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Depression, DID Forum Support, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Fear, Featured post #1, Online Therapy, Self Injury, Therapy Homework Ideas, Uncategorized Tagged With: Anxiety, contamination, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fear, Fear of being forgotten, Fear of Death, fear of disease, home alone, social distancing, socially isolated, Trauma triggers, triggers for DID

A Letter for the Broken Hearted

By Kathy Broady MSW 23 Comments

    It's another rough weekend.... Another Mother's Day has come around.   Today, I saw some writing that speaks so much truth and honesty.   I found these words painfully beautiful.  I didn't write them, but I know you can relate to them, so I have to post them. I genuinely hope they bring comfort to your pain....   I’m gonna say it.  It’s Mother’s Day Weekend & my Facebook is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Featured post #1 Tagged With: a sad day, Abandoned by my mother, Broken Heart, emotional pain, hardest job in town, Heartbroken, Letters of comfort, Mother's Day

Demonstrating DID System Work with Dark Side Parts during a Difficult Time

By Kathy Broady MSW 36 Comments

  October is a particularly heavy month for most dissociative trauma survivors.  It's the changing of the seasons, and the time when darker sides of many DID systems surface.   October is when many of the darker insiders have had trauma memories, and it's typically a month when many dissociative survivors feel heightened PTSD symptoms, fear, and anxiety.  It's a month filled with significant dates for anyone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Be brave!, DID healing journey, DID System Work, Dissociative Identity Disorder, From darkness to light, Healing from Ritual Abuse, Healing Process, Leaving the Darkness, Making healthy changes, October strugggles, PTSD, Treatment Goals for DID

Noise Pollution and Sound Trauma becomes Psychological Torture

By Kathy Broady MSW 30 Comments

  Noise Pollution and Sound Trauma as a form of Torture Have you ever experienced noise pollution or sound trauma?   Those are my words for it, and in my definition, sound trauma is an overly long, extended exposure to a loud, uncomfortable, grating, penetrating noise.  For that matter, I suppose the noise  / noise pollution could be quieter, yet when it gets repeated extensively, it would still be effective … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, DID Education, DID Forum Support, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, Featured post #1, Mind Control, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: DID System Work, Emotional Overwhelm, internal noise and chaos, Noise pollution, Noise trauma, Overwhelming noise, peace and quiet, psychological torture, Sound torture, Sound trauma

2. Still Our Normal Complicated Selves — Keep on Writing!

By Kathy Broady MSW 957 Comments

  Wow -- our first place to write anything has been a WONDERFUL success.... with well over 1,000 comments, and many ongoing conversations between dissociative survivors.   Three cheers for Our Normal Complicated Selves!! And like you, I was having trouble opening the page.  I guess 1000+ comments on one page feels heavy to the internet ??  Not sure. But even so --- let's just start a second page for ONCS … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Featured Posts #3, Friends of Multiples, Fun!, Supportive Spouses Tagged With: DID Community Forum, DID friendship forum, DID friendships, DID support, Discussing Dissociation, ONCS, Online DID community, Our Normal Complicated Selves, the writing place

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