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What Does Long-Term Family Violence Do to You?

By Kathy Broady MSW 15 Comments

    What happens when you live with violence for years of time? When violence happens every day, or every other day, or every week? How do you cope with that much fear and chaos? How do save yourself from falling into a deep, dark depression? What happens to your sense of trust? What do you do with your own huge feelings? What if you are trapped in that situation and don’t know how to remove … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Featured post #1, Physical Abuse, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Domestic Violence, Effects of chronic violence, Emotional Abuse, Family Violence, Leaving violence and abuse, Living in chronic violence, Living with a Violent Narcissist, Making a safety plan, Physical Abuse, Safety First, Separating from abusers, You don't have to be hurt anymore, You need safety

The Emotional Container of Abuse

By Kathy Broady MSW 5 Comments

  Emotional abuse. This is a complicated topic.  It's a topic I've tried to explain to many dissociative trauma survivors many many times.   The concept of emotional abuse can be hard to grasp.  This is because the trauma survivor often internalizes the perpetrator's offensive verbage, believing it to be true.  But it's not true.  Not at all. In this article, I will describe one example of the dynamic of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Friends of Multiples, Introjects, mental health, Physical Abuse, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Building a backbone, Building a wall, Container of emotions, Create a boundary, Creating Safety, Darkness, Dysfunctional Relationships, Emotional Abuse, Emotional boundaries, Family Violence, Hatred, Projection of emotion, rage, Refusing abuse, Safety First, That's not me, ugliness, Verbal abuse, Wall off the abuse, your darkness

Is THIS Abuse? Yes or No?

By Kathy Broady MSW 27 Comments

Many times I get asked what abuse is. I understand this question, and the need for that question because many of the dissociative survivors who I speak with grew up in such chronically abusive homes that abuse was normal.   Normal is just normal to them.  What I would define as abuse was their norm, their everyday, their usual, their expected.  And once abuse is “just how it is”, it becomes tricky and confusing to … [Read more...]

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Believing a Lie – the Foundation of Dissociation

By Kathy Broady MSW 43 Comments

  What makes it difficult for trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder to know the truth? How easy is it to trick someone with DID with a lie? When are survivors lying to themselves? When does dissociation block out information to know the difference? When does pain, especially emotional pain, become the deciding factor in what survivors believe, regardless of truth? When does the viciousness … [Read more...]

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50 Treatment Issues for Dissociative Identity Disorder

By Kathy Broady MSW 79 Comments

  "I have DID.  How long will it take for someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder to feel better?"   As a clinical therapist, I hear that question frequently.  It's a reasonable question.  I certainly understand that when dissociative trauma survivors are deeply hurting and struggling in their life, they want to feel better as quickly as possible. However, the clinical treatment for someone with Dissociative … [Read more...]

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