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10 Years of Discussing Dissociation and 10 Terrific Challenges for YOU

By Kathy Broady MSW 75 Comments

  Today, is 10 Terrific Years of Discussing Dissociation Day !!   Wow wow wow! I can't even believe it!  How is that possible, and where has all the time gone??!!   This is a big day for me.  It feels amazing, exciting, wonderful, and all kinds of incredible.  I'm just astounded that we've carried on this long and gone this far together!  So let's have fun today.   I have been thinking about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Friends of Multiples, Fun!, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: 10 challenges for DID survivors, 10 years old, 10th Year Anniversary, DID resources, DID System Work, Discussing Dissociation, It's my Blog Birthday!, Support this Site

Check out these Fun Facts about Discussing Dissociation and DID Support

By Kathy Broady MSW 11 Comments

  Hello, hello! I have some fantastic fabulous fun facts to pass along today. Did you know.....    10,000 Comments have been Posted on Discussing Dissociation   Last week, we did it.  We reached 10,000 comments on this blog!  Isn't that amazing?!!  I think it's incredible, and it's a genuine accomplishment for us all. This shows the beautiful community that we have grown here together.  It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Friends of Multiples, Fun! Tagged With: 10000 comments, 400 blog articles about DID, DID healing journey, DID support, Discussing Dissociation, fantastic achievements, fun facts, Kathy Broady MSW

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

2. Still Our Normal Complicated Selves — Keep on Writing!

By Kathy Broady MSW 987 Comments

  Wow -- our first place to write anything has been a WONDERFUL success.... with well over 1,000 comments, and many ongoing conversations between dissociative survivors.   Three cheers for Our Normal Complicated Selves!! And like you, I was having trouble opening the page.  I guess 1000+ comments on one page feels heavy to the internet ??  Not sure. But even so --- let's just start a second page for ONCS … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Friends of Multiples, Fun!, Supportive Spouses Tagged With: DID Community Forum, DID friendship forum, DID friendships, DID support, Discussing Dissociation, ONCS, Online DID community, Our Normal Complicated Selves, the writing place

Progress Made while Reading about DID at Discussing Dissociation

By Kathy Broady MSW 25 Comments

  Have you made any progress in your DID healing?   The information below was written by a DID survivor who has been an avid, long-term reader of this blog, Discussing Dissociation.  I did a tiny bit of editing, but not much. This DID survivor follows the principles I teach here and has been actively and diligently applying my ideas  for DID system work and DID healing in her therapy process for a few … [Read more...]

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