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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...]

Filed Under: Compulsive Hoarding, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, mental health Tagged With: Angry, Anxiety, Attachment Issues, Boundaries, Breaking boundaries, cleaning house, Compulsive Hoarding, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Disaster Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Don't Touch My Stuff!, Emotional Freedom, emotional pain, Emotional Protection, Hoarders, Hoarding, Hoarding on A&E, Hoarding: Buried Alive, Invasion of Boundaries, Isolation, Kathy Broady, Lack of privacy, letting go, Losing everything, Memories, Privacy, Professional Organizers, Remembering, selling your things, Stress, Throw out the trash, Tornado Survivors, Trauma Survivors, Violations

Freedom of Choice and Client Empowerment or Therapeutic Exploitation?

By Kathy Broady MSW 22 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, Online Therapy, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, trauma therapist Tagged With: Boundaries, Choosing, Counselor, Decision Making, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, DID Treatment Goals, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Empowerment, Exploitation, Freedom, Freedom of Choice, Freedom to Choose, Freedom to think, Kathy Broady, Length of Sessions, Limit, Mental Health Professionals, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Therapeutic Exploitation, Therapeutic Limits, Therapist, Therapy for Dissociative Disorders, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy, Treatment Goals for DID, What works?

50 Benefits of Having a Therapist for Dissociative Trauma Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 33 Comments

  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...]

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Protecting Your Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Community

By Kathy Broady MSW 106 Comments

  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...]

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Being Hated, Feeling Hated, Overcoming Self-Hatred

By Kathy Broady MSW 56 Comments

  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...]

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