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Are You Struggling with Difficult Holiday Times?

By Kathy Broady MSW Leave a Comment

  For those of you with dissociative internal system people, during difficult holiday times....   Remember to talk with your insiders. They already know what happened. They were there.   They saw it, they felt it. They can explain what's bothering you.....   Be brave. Listen to them......     System work -- listening to your insiders, talking to your system, checking inside, looking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, Internal Communication, mental health, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: DID Treatment, DID/MPD, Difficulties at Easter, Discussing Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Easter pain, Healing from trauma, Internal Communication, Kathy Broady, Painful memories, Struggle with holidays, Talking Inside

Can You See Inside Outside?

By Kathy Broady MSW 36 Comments

I have a question for the dissociative readers of this blog. I've been asked this question, and I have an answer, but I'd rather check with you all instead, just to be sure. Can you see your insiders on the outside?      Let me explain further. I know that people with Dissociative Identity Disorder can see their internal worlds. The internal world for dissociative survivors typically has a landscape, several … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fear, Internal Communication, Introjects, mental health Tagged With: DID/MPD, Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Hallucinations, Health, Internal Communication, Internal Landscape, Internal World, Introjects, Kathy, Kathy Broady, mental health, Multiple Personality, Visions

Inside, After — In the Head of a Dissociative Trauma Survivor

By Kathy Broady MSW 19 Comments

    More DID artwork.  Gotta love this stuff.  This internal landscape drawing is called "Inside, After".   DID art is so very helpful, and informative.   Artwork says things that words have difficulty explaining.   The series on artwork drawn by survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder  have been some of the most visited articles from this blog.  If you haven't checked them out, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: blindfold, Color, DID Artwork, DID/MPD, Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Health, Inside After, Internal Communication, Internal Worlds, Kathy Broady, mental health, Purple, Survivors, System Work

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

Pie Squabbles – A Story about Internal Conflict

By Kathy Broady MSW 5 Comments

Recently, my magpie visitors set a new record high for the size of the group gathering at my balcony waiting for treats. At one single point in time, I had 18 pies there surrounding me, all squawking and squawling and calling and cheeping and chirping and whistling and warbling and garbling and gawking and flapping and hopping, each hoping to be the next in line for the little bits of bologna I was handing out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Internal Communication, Maggies, Self Injury Tagged With: Aggression, Arguing, Beak, Biology, Bird Story, DID / MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Feather, Fighting with each other, Internal Communication, Internal Conflict, Internal Fighting, Internal System Work, Kathy Broady, Maggies, magpies, Ornithology, Problem solving, Rainy Days, Recreation, Self Destruction, Self Injury, Stories about birds, System Work, Thunderstorms, Zoology

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