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Hopelessness and Despair

By Kathy Broady MSW 43 Comments

  Some days just feel too hard. Those days feel like you just can’t make it through… Those are the days when you wish you could curl up in a ball, and sleep or stare all day long… Or hide away forever…     Ever had a day like that? Ever felt like your problems were just toooooo big? Or tooooo never-ending?  Or tooooo all-encompassing? Ever felt overwhelmed with hopelessness? Or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Self Injury Tagged With: Albert Einstein, Amnesiac Walls, Attacks, Betrayal, Carrie Underwood, Courage, Creative, Depression, Despair, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, DID Treatment, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Emotional Overwhelm, emotional pain, Fear, Healing, Healthy Relationships, heartbreak, Hope, Hopelessness, Insiders, Internal System Helpers, Kathy Broady, Overwhelm, pain, Relief, Respect, Sadness, Self Injury, SI, Suffering, Trauma, Trauma Survivors

20 Types of Dissociative Splits

By Kathy Broady MSW 121 Comments

    It always amazes me when dissociative trauma survivors tell me that after they've met three or four of their inside alters (or maybe even a few more than that, but not many), that they think they've met everyone in their system.  They think they don't have that many dissociative splits in their DID system, or they think that they are "done" meeting their insiders. That never makes sense to me.  Oh, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured Post #2, Internal Communication, Kathy's Video Comments, Ritual Abuse, sexual abuse, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Abusive Fathers, Abusive mothers, Abusive Parents, Child Parts, Denial, DID Treatment, DID/MPD, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Splits, Dysfunctional Family, Emotion, Emotional Containment, Floaters, Health, Host Parts, Internal System Helpers, Internal Systems, Introjects, Kathy Broady, Loyalty, Memory Work, mental health, Mind Control, multiple personality disorder, Organized Perpetrators, Programming, PTSD, Roles within the system, splitting, Trauma, Trauma Survivors, treatment for DID, Types of Alters for DID, Types of Splitting

First Discussing Dissociation Group Chat

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  ~ ~ ~  This is an old post, and is here for informational purposes.  ~ ~ ~ Please note:  there is no group chat currently scheduled.     Hello hello ! I am happy to announce that the first group chat for readers of the Discussing Dissociation blog will be held on ...... at 7 PM Central Standard Time. To participate in this group chat, you will need to sign up through www.AbuseConsultants.com … [Read more...]

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10 Life-Lessons I’ve Learned from Multiples, part 1

By Kathy Broady MSW 20 Comments

  No, I'm not a multiple.   I do not have multiple personalities. I do not have Dissociative Identity Disorder. But I know multiples very well.   I am a trauma therapist who has worked almost exclusively with people with dissociative disorders.  I met my first DID survivor 30 years ago.  Since then, I have met more multiples than I can count, and I have spent hours and hours and hours each week -- and most … [Read more...]

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Overcoming Instability Issues and Unsuccessful Memory Work

By Kathy Broady MSW 19 Comments

      Kerro commented: I have a question about stability. I accept that I need to be reliable, motivated, responsible and willing to delve into things I generally don't want to delve into. As for stability - I can see how a stable client is easier to work with for a therapist. However, what if the beginning stages of therapy have resurfaced old issues or retraumatised the client to the extent that … [Read more...]

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