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DID Survivors — I have a Question for You about Fathers

By Kathy Broady MSW 43 Comments

    DID Survivors — I have a question for you about fathers.   It’s not Father’s Day everywhere in the world, but this weekend has been  Father’s Day for the Discussing Dissociation readers in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Peru, Netherlands, and Philippines.   I’ve mentioned these countries specifically because it’s absolutely amazing to see these areas in the Top 10 Countries for DD … [Read more...]

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20 Types of Dissociative Splits

By Kathy Broady MSW 119 Comments

    It always amazes me when dissociative trauma survivors tell me that after they've met three or four of their inside alters (or maybe even a few more than that, but not many), that they think they've met everyone in their system.  They think they don't have that many dissociative splits in their DID system, or they think that they are "done" meeting their insiders. That never makes sense to me.  Oh, I … [Read more...]

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Now I have lost my father…

By Kathy Broady MSW 32 Comments

“So thanks to all of this therapy, I have lost my father.” “You haven’t lost your father….You did lose the father that you thought you had…” “OK, I get it.  I didn’t have the perfect dad…. And my therapy has successfully shattered my romanticized image of my narcissistic father.  Is that how you would say it?” “I would say, the patient, born to a depressed mother, idealized her father so as to not feel completely … [Read more...]

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Mothers and Mother’s Day for Trauma Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 32 Comments

    For dissociative trauma survivors, Mother’s Day is often a painful time. For survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder, mother issues are usually complex and difficult to sort out.  Momma-trauma comes in a variety of forms.     For some survivors, their mothers were simply not there to protect them from the violent abuse of the perpetrator, including the father or other sadistic … [Read more...]

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Introjects – What are Introjects?

By Kathy Broady MSW 22 Comments

    I am frequently asked “What are introjects?”   Most DID trauma survivors have introjects as part of their dissociative system, but there is a lot of confusion as to what introjects actually are.  There is even more confusion about what to do with an introject when you find one. Introjects are alters -- an inside part of your system.  They are a specific type of insider, but they are an inside part … [Read more...]

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