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Denial — Does it help? Or does it hurt?

By Kathy Broady MSW 36 Comments

  To any dissociative trauma survivor weighing heavy in denial....   Denial.... SO important for your years of survival.... SO very very crucial for maintaining your education, functionality, employment...   Denial.... important, so very powerful... covers up the amnesia What time loss? Has anyone lost time?   Denial... covers up the pain covers up the horror covers up the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abuse, Amnesia, Amnesiac Walls, Denial, Denial helps, Denial hurts, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Healing, Healing Process, Hopelessness, Humiliating, Hurting Others, Kathy Broady, Losing Time, Lost Time, Multiplicity, pain, Survival, Survivor, System Communication, System Work, therapy, Time Loss, Trauma, Treatment for Denial

When It’s Dark and Scary on the Inside…

By Kathy Broady MSW 21 Comments

    Trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder can see an internal world.  Step back, turn around an look inside - it will be there. What happens if you have looked inside and all you see is a lot of darkness, or desolation, and not so many people with welcome arms?   First of all, think about what internal darkness means to you as an individual.  There are a variety of … [Read more...]

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Using the Internal Landscape to Increase Internal Communication

By Kathy Broady MSW 28 Comments

  Trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder have an internal world – an internal landscape that is visible, tangible, and very real for the different internal parts.  No one on the outside can see this internal world – it is within the mind of the DID person and it belongs totally and completely to them. Many times, this internal landscape is an internalized replica of what happened in the outside … [Read more...]

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Developing Internal Communication – Starting with the Basics

By Kathy Broady MSW 63 Comments

  There are a variety of ways to develop basic, effective skills in internal communication with your dissociative system.  Most of these skills are very similar, even the same, as the communication skills used with real people in the everyday world.  There is no fancy trick to learning to talk to your inside people.  Everyone can do this.   Remember, it's like talking to other people.   Have you … [Read more...]

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Therapy for Dissociative Trauma Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 9 Comments

    What is therapy?  What is a therapist? What is the therapy process? And how can you tell if they’re any good?     What is therapy? In my experience, therapy is about speaking the unspeakable.  It’s the telling of things that you haven’t had the safety or the opportunity to tell before.  It’s expressing your deepest feelings without have to edit or omit or pretend for the sake of someone … [Read more...]

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