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What if you don’t like being Multiple?

By Kathy Broady MSW 61 Comments

  This week, the readers here have posted a wide variety of reactions to the idea that being multiple could have benefits.  If you haven't yet read all the comments on that blog, please do so.  They are very interesting. When people have DID/MPD, they have experienced life as a multiple since their childhood.  It is their norm - basically the only way of life they know.  Multiples typically have not experienced … [Read more...]

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10 Benefits of Being Multiple

By Kathy Broady MSW 80 Comments

Are there any benefits to being multiple?   In the typical process of trauma therapy, your therapist and the dissociative trauma survivor will spend a great deal of time talking about how difficult it is to be multiple -- and it is difficult, no doubt about it.  For the typical multiple, there were years and years of pain and horror and abuse requiring the need to split over and over into a number of … [Read more...]

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Lack of Acceptance of Dissociative Parts and Their Life Histories

By Kathy Broady MSW 36 Comments

Many trauma survivors with DID, especially those relatively new in the treatment process, often have difficulty accepting that there are "other people inside your head." The ideas of losing time (including big chunks of time), losing control of yourself and your mind or your body, having a limited awareness of what has happened in your life, sharing your life with a bunch of others of all different ages, and … [Read more...]

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