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National Puzzle Day – puzzles are for DID!

By Kathy Broady MSW 3 Comments

Puzzle Pieces at Discussing Dissociation

    It's National PUZZLE Day!   As you know, there are PUZZLE PIECES in everything that Discussing Dissociation does.  I understand that Autism Awareness also uses a puzzle design, but in my opinion, the puzzle piece is the perfect metaphor for Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/mpd).   How does the puzzle fit with DID? Dissociative folks and puzzles connect together because … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, DID Education, DID Forum Support, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Fun!, Kathy's Video Comments, The Power of Music, trauma therapist Tagged With: Discussing Dissociation, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Jigsaw puzzle, National Puzzle Day, P4 DID Conference

The Dissociative Brain – Quilted and Created by a Talented DID Survivor

By Kathy Broady MSW 12 Comments

The Dissociative Brain

  How would you describe a dissociative trauma survivor's brain? What are some words or phrases that describe what happens in a DID trauma survivor's brain?   These questions were asked to the DID survivors who participate in the Discussing Dissociation Community Forum (DDCF).  The DDCF group came up with a long lists of words, more than could ever fit on this quilt.  One of the goals and purposes of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, DID Education, DID Forum Support, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1 Tagged With: A DID Brain, An Infinite Mind, DID Forum, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, handmade quilt, I am because we are, quilting with creativity, The Dissociative Brain, trauma survivor's brain, words describing dissociative people

Our New DID Community Forum is OPEN!

By Kathy Broady MSW 10 Comments

  Yes! The New DDCF Forum is HERE! Wow.  Happy days are here again.  Because, after a long battle of bumbling and fumbling around with our old forum platform, I’m enormously pleased to announce that the shiny new DDCF forum platform is bright and beautiful.   Yes, our new forum site is now open and it’s working splendidly!    The DDCF Community is adjusting to the new look, the new feel, the new features, and we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Forum Support, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Fun!, Internal Communication, Online Therapy, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: awesome community, DDCF, DID Community, DID Forum, DID friendships, DID healing journey, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, Dissociative Identity Disorder, forum for dissociative trauma survivors

The Impact of Change: DDCF Forum is Moving and Improving

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  Addressing the Impact of Change While DDCF Forum is Moving and Improving   It’s an exciting week for DDCF — the Discussing Dissociation Community Forum.   Our DID Forum community has grown and strengthened and developed to the point that we need - deserve - earned! a more expansive Forum Home, and this week is migration week.  I call it "Migration Week" because this week, we are moving our Forum and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, DID Education, DID Forum Support, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication Tagged With: Anxiety about change, DDCF, DID Forum, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, Internal Communication, Listen to your insiders, Migration, Stressing about Change, Support for DID

Yes, We are Proud of the DDCF Community Forum Members!

By Kathy Broady MSW 4 Comments

  At the time of writing this article, we had our wonderful Discussing Dissociation Community Forum open for a few months.  Of course, it started out as a big learning curve for all of us, and even with a few bumps in the road.  Even now, much later, I have to say that the DDCF Community is going very well.  I feel really proud of our DDCF Community Forum Members -- like, really really proud!!! --- and it’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID Forum Support, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Online Therapy, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Creating a safe place, DDCF, DID Educational Forum, DID Forum, DID healing journey, DID spouse forum, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, dissociative community support, Internal Communication, Proud of our members!

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