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...]
Freedom of Choice and Client Empowerment or Therapeutic Exploitation?
I would like to make a follow-up comment from a comment made on the “What Would Your Perfect Treatment Plan Look Like?” blog. Specifically, a portion of heartofindigo’s comment includes the following paragraph: a final comment: I wish that T’s would do exactly what you are doing, and ask. I have heard of so many… can’t think of a way to put this delicately… asinine demands on the patient. like the … [Read more...]
50 Benefits of Having a Therapist for Dissociative Trauma Survivors
There have been some interesting discussions and comments from various trauma survivors about how much their therapists have meant to them. These readers have shared some very tender moments with their therapists and have talked openly about the depths of their heart-warming connections and healing moments. Clearly, these survivors have found their therapists to be important and significant people in their … [Read more...]
Protecting Your Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Community
There are thousands of clinical therapists in the world. However, of all the therapists in the world, only a few work with trauma and PTSD. Of all the trauma therapists, only a few work with the areas of sexual abuse and severe trauma. Of those therapists, only a few work with dissociative disorders, DID/MPD and DDNOS. Of the DID therapists, only a very few work with issues relating to … [Read more...]
Being Hated, Feeling Hated, Overcoming Self-Hatred
Practically every dissociative trauma survivor that I have spoken to has said to me that at some point in time or another, they have felt hated, truly hated. What's worse, they didn't feel hated by strangers -- they felt hated by their loved ones. These trauma survivors felt hated by their mothers, their fathers, their siblings, their spouses, their children, their friends. They felt hatred from the … [Read more...]