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Mind Control in the Media

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  So the TV show, “One Life to Live,” is doing it again.  They are bringing the concepts of  DID / MPD, dissociation, dissociative splitting, programming, and mind control into the story line. I haven’t quite decided what I think about this yet – I’m waiting to see where they go with it – but I did want to start an area open for discussion in case any of the readers of this blog have anything to say about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Mind Control, One Life to Live, Physical Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Busting the programming, Courage, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Electrical Shock, Freedom, Freedom of Thought, Kathy Broady, MC, Mind Control, Mind Control Techniques, One Live to Live, Programmed Selves, Programmers, Programming, RockingComplacency, Safety, Svali, Thinking for yourself, Trauma

Body Memories – The Body Remembering

By Kathy Broady MSW 66 Comments

  Body Memories -- ouch!   In the television show "One Life To Live" -- Bess tried to rescue Jessica one more time by taking baby Chloe and going on the run.  Their secret had gotten out -- baby Chloe belonged to someone else and the dear little one was not Jessica's baby at all. Tess was angry with Bess for trying this last stunt.  Every time Bess looked in the mirror, she would see Tess's angry face … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, One Life to Live, sexual abuse, therapy, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abuse, Body Memories, Body memory, Cellular Memory, DID/MPD, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Emotion, Healing, Healing from Sexual Abuse, Jessica Buchanan, Kathy Broady, Memory Work, One Life to Live, pain, Physical body, PTSD, sexual abuse, Sexually Abused, Tess, therapy, Trauma, Treatment of DID

One Life to Live and Jessica’s Integration

By Kathy Broady MSW 14 Comments

  Multiplicity has made it into the Soap Opera world. On the soap opera, "One Life to Live", the character named Jessica Buchanan has Dissociative Identity Disorder.  In earlier episodes, Jessica spent a fair bit of time in an inpatient hospital unit addressing her trauma, her grief, etc.  According to Jessica, she resolved her difficult emotional issues and dealt with her internal system conflicts so … [Read more...]

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