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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...]

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Pictures of DID – “How I View My Head”

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Here is yet another unique view of Dissociative Identity Disorder.   “How I View My Head” Isn’t this an interesting picture! It almost looks three-dimensional.  Very cool! Once again, please remember, I’ll be writing out some of my thoughts without having conversations with the artist.  I am presenting these thoughts for educational purposes only, and my guesses or impressions could be wrong.  If I … [Read more...]

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Picturing Dissociative Identity Disorder: Their Own Little Worlds

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  This picture is an example of an internal landscape for a trauma survivor with dissociative identity disorder.  Internal worlds are very real, and they sometimes feel more real than the external world for certain parts.  Internal worlds are more than having an imagination.  They are interactive, busy, alive places. Some survivors with DID have trouble looking inside.  Many people say they can hear things, … [Read more...]

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Using the Internal Landscape to Address Dissociative System Issues

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  As I’ve said over and over in this blog, internal communication -- people within the DID system talking to each other -- is absolutely central and crucial to the healing process.  The inside parts need to hear each other, talk to each other, see each other, write to each other, etc.  The more you all talk amongst yourselves, the better your healing journey will progress. Addressing and finding problem issues as … [Read more...]

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