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

By Kathy Broady MSW 36 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Be brave!, DID healing journey, DID System Work, Dissociative Identity Disorder, From darkness to light, Healing from Ritual Abuse, Healing Process, Leaving the Darkness, Making healthy changes, October strugggles, PTSD, Treatment Goals for DID

50 Treatment Issues for Dissociative Identity Disorder

By Kathy Broady MSW 18 Comments

 "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...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Internal Communication, Introjects, Mind Control, Physical Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Transference Issues, Trauma Tagged With: DID Email Consultation, DID Healing, DID Phone Consultation, DID Therapy, DID Treatment, Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Therapy, Healing Process, Health, mental health

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

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, mental health, Stories for Child Insiders, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Add joy to your life, Baking and Confections, Canada, Chocolate chip cookie, Cookie, Cookies, Cooking, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Friendship, good times, Healing Process, Heartache, Kathy Broady, Maizy, pain, picnics, Smarties, Sugar cookie

Doris and Morris, the Neighbors, of Course

By Kathy Broady MSW 16 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Stories for Child Insiders, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Absence of Quiet, Chaos, Creating a safe place, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Doris, feeling safe, good neighbors, good neighbours, Healing Process, Horses, Internal Safety, Internal System, Kathy Broady, Morris, Neighborhood Safety, Neighbors, no drama, Peace, Quiet, Safe Neighbors, Safe Places, Safety, Stability, Trauma Survivors, turmoil

Integration – A New Category and Nine Quick Opinions

By Kathy Broady MSW 44 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Artwork, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Integration - yes or no, Internal Communication, mental health Tagged With: Blended layers, Blending, Building Trust, Category for Integration, Dark insiders, DID / MPD, Discussing Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Walls, Genuine relationships, Healing, Healing Process, In my opinion, Integration, Internal Communication, Internal splitting, Internal Worlds, is integration necessary?, Kathy Broady, lures into darkness, Safety, Singleton, Splits, Talking Together, Talking with your insiders, Team work, Treatment Goals, Treatment Goals for DID

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