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Demonstrating DID System Work with Dark Side Parts during a Difficult Time

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  October is a particularly heavy month for most dissociative trauma survivors.  It's the changing of the seasons, and the time when darker sides of many DID systems surface.   October is when many of the darker insiders have had trauma memories, and it's typically a month when many dissociative survivors feel heightened PTSD symptoms, fear, and anxiety.  It's a month filled with significant dates for anyone … [Read more...]

50 Treatment Issues for Dissociative Identity Disorder

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 "50 Treatment Issues for Dissociative Identity Disorder"    A comprehensive listing, yes, but even so,  still not exhaustive of all the work done by dissociative trauma survivors.     Healing takes a LOT of work. There's no wonder it's so time-consuming.   This article is one of the very first posts written on Discussing Dissociation. There are many new readers of this blog since those early … [Read more...]

Maizy’s M&M Memory — Remembering the Good Times

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  Maizy! Where have you been, Maizy? And what were you doing on this day, Maizy? Where did you get that giant cookie, Maizy? Maizy likes cookies. In fact, Maizy likes so many different kinds of cookies that it is impossible to know which kind of cookie is the very best cookie in the whole world. I happen to be a fan of snickerdoodles. They are my personal favorite. But then again, chocolate-chip cookies are … [Read more...]

Doris and Morris, the Neighbors, of Course

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  Hello ! Here is Doris and Morris. Of course. Doris and Morris are the very best neighbors I have ever had.  A horse, of course! Doris is the pretty chestnut mare, and Morris is the beautiful black gelding. Doris is younger, and spunky, and she happily canters over every afternoon for her very favorite treat -- pieces of bread. Bread, bread, bread! Doris could eat a whole loaf of bread every single … [Read more...]

Integration – A New Category and Nine Quick Opinions

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  Hello, hello ! I hope you are doing well today. This will be a short post, but I made an important update to the Discussing Dissociation blog and wanted to be sure that you all knew about it. I have been asked repeatedly about my views on integration.  I’ve written posts and comments about this topic, but unfortunately, I didn’t create a “category” for these posts. So now, with around 400 articles on this … [Read more...]