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20 Types of Dissociative Splits

By Kathy Broady MSW 119 Comments

    It always amazes me when dissociative trauma survivors tell me that after they've met three or four of their inside alters (or maybe even a few more than that, but not many), that they think they've met everyone in their system.  They think they don't have that many dissociative splits in their DID system, or they think that they are "done" meeting their insiders. That never makes sense to me.  Oh, I … [Read more...]

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