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The Discussing Dissociation Community Forum is READY!

By Kathy Broady MSW 40 Comments

  Say what?? Yep, you heard it right!    The FORUM is ready! Our DID Community FORUM is ready! The Community Friendship FORUM is ready!   To be clear, the first half of the Discussing Dissociation Community Forum is ready -- the Community Friendship Area. The Community Friendship Forum is the place that DID survivors have to mingle and talk and share and listen and support and help each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID Forum Support, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Friends of Multiples Tagged With: DDCF, DID Community Forum, DID Community Support, DID Forum, DID friendship forum, DID Peer Support, DID resource, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, Dissociative Identity Disorder

10 New Additions to Discussing Dissociation Designed to Help Your DID System

By Kathy Broady MSW 40 Comments

10 New Additions to Discussing Dissociation Designed to Help Your DID System   How closely have you been watching Discussing Dissociation?  Which one of these 10 new additions will be most helpful for you and your system? There have been a lot of changes and additions made to the Discussing Dissociation blog in recent months.  You may have noticed many of them, but in case you haven’t, I’ve made a list so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bears of Hiddenton Point, DID Education, DID Forum Support, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured Posts #3, Friends of Multiples, Online Therapy, Podcasts Tagged With: Connecting with other DID survivors, DDCF, DID Community Support, DID Forum, DID friends, DID resource, Discussing Dissociation, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, Help for DID survivors, Helping trauma survivors, Podcasts with Kathy from DiscussingDissociation

5000 Comments Posted on DiscussingDissociation

By Kathy Broady MSW 7 Comments

  Yep!  :) That's right!!  :)   We have made 5000 comments on this blog. You.  Y'all.  All you rock stars out there! Thank you, thank you, and thank you!     Wait!  Wait!  Wait!    It's been awhile since I first wrote this article, and I have an update to add.   There are now 10,000 comments posted on this blog!!   No, no, that's NOT spam -- spam comments are never posted, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID Forum Support, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Friends of Multiples, Fun!, Online Therapy, Supportive Spouses, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: 10000 comments, 5000 comments, asking questions, building a community, DID Community, DID Community Support, Experts in Dissociation, my readers are awesome, Online community, sharing the wisdom, Thanking my readers, the best readers

4 Happy Thanksgiving Thankful For’s

By Kathy Broady MSW 25 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving!   Just for fun -- and because it's good for the hear too --  I'm picking a few pictures that show you some things I am thankful for.  To be specific, I'm picking FOUR things I am thankful for.  I'm thankful for a lot more than FOUR things, but you know... it's kinda fun to be thankful FOUR.   :-)  :mrgreen:  :roll:  :lol:    1.  Things that are beautiful. Nature is so … [Read more...]

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