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Why Bother to Integrate if You’re Multiple?

By Kathy Broady MSW 34 Comments

With so much pressure out in the therapeutic world to integrate, my question back to that, is why?? Dissociative trauma survivors need healing from all the wounding, and safety from any further abuse, yes, absolutely of course.   And some blending will occur naturally with internal / external safety, with good communication, and with excellent internal team work.   But what's wrong with experiencing a safe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Integration - yes or no, mental health Tagged With: Benefits of multiplicity, DID/MPD, Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Integration, Integration for DID, Living life as a multiple, No need to integrate

Pie Squabbles – A Story about Internal Conflict

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Another true life animal story that inspired thoughts about living with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Can you relate to this one?   Warmly, Kathy   Copyright © 2008-2017  Kathy Broady MSW and Discussing Dissociation   Related articles Dual Mask - A Picture of Dissociative Identity Disorder  Picturing a Group of Insiders - a Dissociative System  My 100 Strengths, as Said by a Group of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, Maggies, Stories for Child Insiders Tagged With: Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Health, mental health

Are You Having Trouble Staying Asleep?

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Sleep is one of the most highly searched topics on Discussing Dissociation. Keeping that in mind, I will write more about sleep issues soon. In the meantime, I hope this article is a good starting place.    Switching in Your Sleep -– Are you Snoozing or Secretly Awake?     Warmly, Kathy   Related articles How Dissociative Are You?  20 Types of Dissociative Splits  Picturing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder Tagged With: Conditions and Diseases, Dissociation, Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fugue state, Health, Mental disorder, Sleep disorder, Sleeping or switching, Time Loss

Mind Control Programming Basics III: Individuality Survives Programming

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"You'll still be you."   That's a line from one of my favorite movies, Muriel's Wedding -- an old movie with a very young Toni Collette.   "You'll still be you."   And these words are the theme of this blog post by Rocking Complacency. No matter what horrible darkness has happened to you, underneath it all, in between the splittings that happened to survive it all, you are still you. And no one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Mind Control, Ritual Abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Dissociation, Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Healing, Health, Kathy, Kathy Broady, Muriel, Muriel's Wedding, Rocking Complacency, Toni Collette

25 More Ways to Avoid Self-Injury and Prevent Self-Harm

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  Let's continue with the theme from yesterday,  25 Ways to Avoid Self Injury .   Here is Part 2:  25 More Ways to Avoid Self Injury and Prevent Self-Harm .   This now totals 50  ideas for distraction techniques that can be very helpful when you are battling self-injury.   Which ideas work best for you? How long can you stretch time out between self-harming episodes? If you have Dissociative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, mental health, Self Injury, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, distraction techniques, Health, Kathy, mental health, pain, prevent self-harm, Self Destructive Behavior, Self Harm, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Trauma (medicine)

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