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Kathy’s Video Comments: Making a Strong Foundation for Dissociative Healing

By Kathy Broady MSW Leave a Comment

  Hello, Silly ol' me is using a tree metaphor once again to talk about Dissociative Identity Disorder and the very many different areas of healing work to do in DID therapy.     It's "Tree Tree-ment" for dissociative trauma treatment. Ha ha ha.   :mrgreen:  :lol:  :roll:  :mrgreen:    This particular video follows along with the article,  50 Treatment Issues for Dissociative Identity Disorder  . I call this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Kathy's Video Comments, mental health, Puppies, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, trauma therapist Tagged With: DID Treatment Goals, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivor, Giant tree, Kathy's video comments, Strong foundation, Trauma Survivor, Treatment Goal, Tree trunks

Doubly Difficult Days for DID Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 28 Comments

  This weekend is often a difficult weekend for trauma survivors with dissociative identity disorder.  First, there is Father’s Day (for those of us living in the USA), and secondly, it’s the Summer Solstice.  Anytime the difficult days get stacked on top of each other, it’s going to make for a complicated time.   On days when the issues seem to surface in layers, what do you do to cope? **This blog article is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Introjects, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Transference Issues, Trauma Tagged With: Anxiety, Body Memories, Chest Pain, Dallas Therapist, Depersonalization, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivor, emotional pain, Family Conflict, Father Introjects, Father Issues, Fear, Headaches, Healing, Healing Process, Internal Conflict, Irritability, Kathy Broady, Loyalty, Male Therapist, night church, Nightmares, Obsessions, Panic Attacks, Paternal Abuse, Perpetrators, PTSD, RA, Ritual Abuse, Season changes, Self Destruction, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Sexual Perpetrators, Sexually Abused Child, Sexually Abused Children, SI, Summer Solstice, Switching, Therapy Process, Therapy Process for DID, Trauma, Trauma Bonds, Trauma memories, Trauma survviors, trauma therapist, Treatment Goals for DID, Trembling, Triggers

Seeing Multiplicity – Keaton Style

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  Multiplicity, the 1996 movie with Michael Keaton, is not specifically about Dissociative Identity Disorder – it is technically about being cloned -- but it is a funny, light-hearted comedy that absolutely pertains to DID / MPD.   Have you watched this show? Keaton’s character has a lot in common with DID.  As you watch the movie, you can see the following similarities happen in this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Friends of Multiples, Internal Communication, Supportive Spouses Tagged With: Andie MacDowell, Cloning, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, DID Treatment Goals, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivor, Guidelines for DID Therapy, Internal Communication, Internal Cooperation, Kathy Broady, Michael Keaton, Multiple Personalities, Multiple Personality, multiple personality disorder, Multiplicity, Multiplicity in the Media, split personality, System Communication, System Cooperation, System Work

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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Current Day Abuse – When Dissociative Survivors are Trapped, Owned, and Exploited as Adults

By Kathy Broady MSW 18 Comments

    Dissociative Identity Disorder is created from severe, chronic child abuse, but does that abuse automatically stop in childhood? Unfortunately, no, it does not.   All too many survivors continue to be trapped in abusive environments long after their childhood has ended.  Sometimes this abuse continues with the same family-related perpetrators that abused the survivor all throughout the childhood … [Read more...]

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