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Switching in Your Sleep -– Are you Snoozing or Secretly Awake?

By Kathy Broady MSW 78 Comments

  In situations where dissociative survivors feel like they don’t lose time, it can be helpful to ask a lot of questions about how they experience life, time, recall, etc.  There are a wide variety of reasons why systems get so tightly shut down from switching, (or from the appearance of switching), so it really depends on what else is going on.  There could be other ways that the insiders are coming out, and for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, Kathy's Video Comments, Puppies, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Amnesia, Amnesiac Barriers, Amnesiac Wall, Day Parts, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Amnesia, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dreaming, Host Personality, Internal Communication, Internal Parts, Kathy Broady, Lack of Sleep, Losing Time, Loss of Time, mental health, Need for Sleep, Night Parts, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Sleep, Sleep Barriers, Sleep-walking, Sleepwalking, Switching, Switching in your sleep, Talking with your insiders, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist

Do Dissociative Trauma Survivors Actually Lose Time?

By Kathy Broady MSW 54 Comments

One of the diagnostic criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder is experiencing amnesia or lost time.  While losing time may seem like an obvious hole in your every day life, it really might not be as obvious as it seems it could be. For dissociative trauma survivors, the sliding of time is a normal everyday way of life.  It just is how it is, and time feels very different for DID survivors than it does for other … [Read more...]

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When a Perpetrator Dies….

By Kathy Broady MSW 16 Comments

  Oh my goodness.....   What were you doing on this day..... ?     Flashing back to several years ago ......   ****   Did you experience the social earthquake today? The sudden death of Michael Jackson today has caught everyone by surprise. Will he be more remembered as the King of Pop?  Or will he be forever remembered as a suspected and accused child molester? Everyone will have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Self Injury, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Abuse Victims, Attachment to the Perpetrator, Bonds, Child Parts, Death, Death of a Celebrity, Death of a family member, Denial, DID/MPD, Dissociation Identity Disorder, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Walls, Emotional Earthquake, emotional pain, Emotional Recovery, Emotional Relief, Farrah Fawcett, Flooding of memories, Grief, Healing, Host Personality, Internal Introjects, Internal System, Kathy Broady, King of Pop, Loss, Memories of Abuse, Michael Jackson, New Alters, pain, Perpetrators, Sadness, Self Harm, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Sexual Perpetrators, Sexually Abused, Suicidal Behavior, Suicidal Feelings, Survivors with DID, Trauma Bonds, Trauma Survivors

United States of Tara – Going too Far

By Kathy Broady MSW 49 Comments

Okay.  So I was all kinds of optimistic and hopeful that the Showtime series, United States of Tara, would be a positive statement for Dissociative Identity Disorder.  After all, Showtime interviewed Dr. Richard Kluft, an informed psychiatrist, one of the founding fathers of the treatment of DID/MPD.  That was a good sign, wasn't it? Well. As a trauma therapist with 20+ years of clinical experience working with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, trauma therapist, United States of Tara Tagged With: Abusers, Alters, Being multiple, Child Abusers, Child Alters, Criminally Insane, DID/MPD, Dissociation, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dr. Richard Kluft, Dysfunctional Family, Emotional Outburst, Flashback, Flashbacks, Healing, Host Personality, Insiders, Kathy Broady, Multiple, Multiplicity, Organized Perpetrators, Sex Offenders, Showtime Series, split personality, Switching, Therapist, therapy, trauma therapist, United States of Tara, Victimization, Violence

30 Potential Blocks in the Therapy Process for Dissociative Trauma Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 56 Comments

The healing process for dissociative trauma survivors is very long, involved and complex, and of course, the therapy process for the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder is full of many potential blocks, complications, detours, messes, digressions, etc. The article, 50 Treatment Issues for Dissociative Identity Disorder, lists out many of the steps involved in trauma therapy.  How can dissociative trauma … [Read more...]

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