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Do You have Athazagoraphobia?

By Kathy Broady MSW 35 Comments

  Athazagoraphobia.   I have learned a new word today. Athazagoraphobia.   Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten, ignored, or being replaced.   Athazagoraphobia.   Ooooh boy, what a powerful word that relates to intense feelings held by soooo many dissociative trauma survivors. And since abandonment and neglect is often a huge and prominent part of the trauma history, is there any … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Friends of Multiples, mental health, Supportive Spouses Tagged With: Abandonment, Alzheimer's, Athazagoraphobia, Being ignored, Chronic neglect, Dementia, Depression, Fear of abandonment, Fear of being forgotten, Left alone, Low Self-Esteem, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Phobia of being forgotten

Three Difficult Scenarios involving Fathers

By Kathy Broady MSW 82 Comments

  It’s Father’s Day.  Father's Day is all about those endearing, positive, caring fathers.  But what about the abusive fathers? Fathers.  Yep, fathers are as difficult a topic for dissociative trauma survivors as mothers. Fathers often are heavily involved in the trauma history for dissociative survivors.  Most DID survivors I know have far too many painful memories involving their fathers.   I decided I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Physical Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Abandonment, Abuse, Addictions, Anger, Anxiety, Body Memories, Child Abuse, Childhood rules, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family rules, Father Issues, Fathers, Fathers as Perpetrators, Fathers that abandon their children, Fathers who are abusive, Fear, Flashbacks, Happy Father's Day, Healing, Internal Systems, Kathy Broady, Making your own decisions, Painful, Perpetrators, Physical Abuse, Saying No, Self Destruction, Self Esteem, sexual abuse, splitting, Splitting Process, Trauma Survivors

Turning Self-Injury into Self-Soothing

By Kathy Broady MSW 75 Comments

  Self-injury is a problem all too common for trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID / MPD) or Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).  For that matter, self-injury (SI) is an issue for other populations of people as well.  This discussion will focus more on the effects of trauma and abuse and how self-injury can be addressed effectively.  However, because self-injury is actually a very … [Read more...]

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Sorting through Transference Issues

By Kathy Broady MSW 26 Comments

  In response to some questions asked about my previous blog article about Mother’s Day, I’ve decided to follow up with an additional post on the topic of transference.  Transference isn’t necessarily an exciting topic, but it is fundamentally important to understanding the dissociative therapy treatment process.  Hopefully, this article will help to clarify more about the importance of these … [Read more...]

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What Did Your Mother Teach You?

By Kathy Broady MSW 29 Comments

  Mother’s Day.  Mother's Day is a hard day for a lot of dissociative trauma survivors.  It’s a day full of mixed emotions, painful longings, unhealed heartbreak.   It's so complicated, especially when you think about how important  mothers are to their children, and what their behavior teaches their children. Mother's Day hurts the people who were hurt so much by their mothers. Mothers are a complicated subject, … [Read more...]

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