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Do You Enjoy the Quiet? Or Being alone?

By Kathy Broady MSW

Sunrise over the mountain. Sun through the fog. Outlines of trees through the fog and sunlight. Mt Nebo. Fernvale QLD. Wivenhoe Lake. D'Aigular Forest.

  Years and years ago, there was a time in my life where I had been so surrounded by people, hour after hour, day after day, that I really didn't know how to spend time by myself. That may seem weird, but I just hadn't been alone much. It was a little freaky to learn how to be alone, and how to enjoy being alone. I didn't know how to sit with just quiet. It felt weird to not have a million things going on, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Featured Middle #1, Fun!, mental health, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: alone time, Being alone, Biology, Canada, Disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Gardens, Health, Jacaranda tree, Kathy Broady, Maple, mental health, nature, Plant, Quiet, Silence, Tree

Can You See Inside Outside?

By Kathy Broady MSW 38 Comments

I have a question for the dissociative readers of this blog. I've been asked this question, and I have an answer, but I'd rather check with you all instead, just to be sure. Can you see your insiders on the outside?      Let me explain further. I know that people with Dissociative Identity Disorder can see their internal worlds. The internal world for dissociative survivors typically has a landscape, several … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fear, Internal Communication, Introjects, mental health Tagged With: DID/MPD, Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Hallucinations, Health, Internal Communication, Internal Landscape, Internal World, Introjects, Kathy, Kathy Broady, mental health, Multiple Personality, Visions

Hotmail, Mailboxes, and Dissociative Identity Disorder

By Kathy Broady MSW 14 Comments

    Hotmail! This mailbox on the side of the road is clever. Silly.  Ridiculous.  Funny. What a nice way to get your mail each day.  It's big enough for mail, and probably waterproof too.   And certainly creative. This Hotmail Mailbox made me giggle so I had to share it, just for fun.   You might think there could not be any parallels with Dissociative Identity Disorder in this picture but a few thoughts have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fun! Tagged With: Concrete, Concrete thinking, Creativity, DID/MPD, Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Email, Getting mail, Health, Hollywood, Hotmail, Humour, Kathy, Kathy Broady, Laughter, Mailboxes, mental health

Inside, After — In the Head of a Dissociative Trauma Survivor

By Kathy Broady MSW 19 Comments

    More DID artwork.  Gotta love this stuff.  This internal landscape drawing is called "Inside, After".   DID art is so very helpful, and informative.   Artwork says things that words have difficulty explaining.   The series on artwork drawn by survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder  have been some of the most visited articles from this blog.  If you haven't checked them out, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: blindfold, Color, DID Artwork, DID/MPD, Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Health, Inside After, Internal Communication, Internal Worlds, Kathy Broady, mental health, Purple, Survivors, System Work

It’s Ok to be Unique – It’s Ok to be Plural

By Kathy Broady MSW 53 Comments

Unique. Being yourself. Having a lot of selves. Different from everyone else. What's wrong with that? Nothing at all.     This strawberry is beautiful. It really "makes you look!"         This strawberry is truly amazing. How did it grow in so many separate directions all at once?     Have you ever seen such a unique strawberry? Isn't it interesting? I think it is mega-cool.   I thought maybe … [Read more...]

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