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A Painful Mother’s Day – the Cards Not Written

By Kathy Broady MSW 40 Comments

  Last week, I couldn’t find the words to write about the struggles that so many dissociative survivors have on Mother’s Day.  Sometimes, Mother's Day is a very painful day. In response to that, a dissociative survivor emailed me, and has given me permission to post their thoughts about the painful side of Mother’s Day. Maybe you will relate to these difficult thoughts and painful feelings.   Every … [Read more...]

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Don’t Touch My Stuff !!

By Kathy Broady MSW 26 Comments

  Through the years, some of the most popular articles of the Discussing Dissociation blog has been about compulsive hoarding.    Compulsive Hoarding and Dissociative Disorders   Land of the Free?   I can’t explain their popularity on this blog, other than the way a rash of television programs have increased the awareness of the complications about hoarding. However, hoarding issues are typically … [Read more...]

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Lists of 100 Reasons

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  This is an excellent journaling exercise that can be adapted to any topic at any time. The entirety of the exercise is to find a difficult or complicated topic. Ask yourself a question about that topic and then write out 100 responses to that question. For lots of people, one hundred sounds like a huge number for a writing exercise, but once you start thinking about the issue in smaller increments, you might be … [Read more...]

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Being Kind to Your Internal System

By Kathy Broady MSW 64 Comments

  Hey hello -  How are you today? Thanks for coming back and reading more of the Discussing Dissociation blog.  It's exciting to see the number of site viewers growing each week - I think you all must be spreading the news!  I appreciate all of you who have already become regular readers, and thanks for telling your friends. As a follow-up to yesterday's post about giving- making- creating- providing new and … [Read more...]

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