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Feeling Split about Anger

By Kathy Broady MSW 39 Comments

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness"  ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson   What do you think when you see this picture? How does it relate to you?   I like this picture. I don't agree with the wording, in its entirety, but I can see value in the message. First, let's talk about the picture itself. How does this picture represent the inner worlds, and internal systems of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, Internal Communication, Introjects, mental health, Self Injury, Trauma Tagged With: Anger, angry insiders, Attachment to the Perpetrator, DID / MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Splitting, Dissociative Systems, Happiness, Inside System, Intense emotions, Intense Feelings, Internal Conflict, Kathy Broady, Peace, polar opposites, processing memories, re-enacting trauma, re-enactment, resolving trauma, Self Harm, Self Injury, showing memories, splitting, telling without telling, Trauma Survivors

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

Doubly Difficult Days for DID Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 28 Comments

  This weekend is often a difficult weekend for trauma survivors with dissociative identity disorder.  First, there is Father’s Day (for those of us living in the USA), and secondly, it’s the Summer Solstice.  Anytime the difficult days get stacked on top of each other, it’s going to make for a complicated time.   On days when the issues seem to surface in layers, what do you do to cope? **This blog article is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Introjects, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Transference Issues, Trauma Tagged With: Anxiety, Body Memories, Chest Pain, Dallas Therapist, Depersonalization, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivor, emotional pain, Family Conflict, Father Introjects, Father Issues, Fear, Headaches, Healing, Healing Process, Internal Conflict, Irritability, Kathy Broady, Loyalty, Male Therapist, night church, Nightmares, Obsessions, Panic Attacks, Paternal Abuse, Perpetrators, PTSD, RA, Ritual Abuse, Season changes, Self Destruction, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Sexual Perpetrators, Sexually Abused Child, Sexually Abused Children, SI, Summer Solstice, Switching, Therapy Process, Therapy Process for DID, Trauma, Trauma Bonds, Trauma memories, Trauma survviors, trauma therapist, Treatment Goals for DID, Trembling, Triggers

Not Getting to Be Your True Self – But Whose Life is it Anyway?

By Kathy Broady MSW 24 Comments

Do you get to be your real self? I’ve been wondering what else I could teach about Dissociative Identity Disorder, using an episode of United States of Tara as the example.  Then I remembered the last minute of a show about Buck and his emotional pain.   And I thought more of how very painful and how very real that heartbreak is for Buck. Throughout this season two, Tara has struggled with the fact … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Internal Communication, Supportive Spouses, Therapy Homework Ideas, United States of Tara Tagged With: Acceptance, Be your real self, Buck, Diablo Cody, DID / MPD, DID Survivor, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, heartbreak, Host Personalities, Internal Communication, Internal Conflict, Internal Cooperation, Joey Lauren Adams, John Corbett, Kathy Broady, Kindness, Male Alters, Resolving System Conflict, Sharing, SurvivorForum.com, System Conflict, System Cooperation, Tara, Teamwork, Toni Collette, Trauma Survivors, Treatment for DID / MPD, Treatment Goals for DID, True self, United States of Tara, US of Tara

US of Tara – Sexual Confusion, Misconduct, and Acting-Out

By Kathy Broady MSW 14 Comments

. Oh boy. I didn’t have a chance to watch or write about last week’s episode of Showtime’s United States of Tara, so before the series got too much further, I thought I’d bring up the topic. First of all – it’s now really clear to me what people were referring to as triggering about episode two.  The sudden sexual explicitness would be triggering to a lot of trauma survivors.  If you haven’t yet seen this episode, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Internal Communication, sexual abuse, Supportive Spouses, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma, trauma therapist, United States of Tara Tagged With: AbuseConsultants.com, Acting-out sexual abuse, Buck, Dallas TX, Diablo Cody, DID / MPD, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivors, Healing from Sexual Abuse, Internal Communication, Internal Conflict, Internal System Conflict, Kathy Broady, multiple personality disorder, Re-enactments of Abuse, sexual abuse, Sexual Acting-out, Sexual confusion, Sexual Trauma, Showtime, Tara, Toni Collette, Trauma Survivors, United States of Tara, US of Tara

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