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Where Did I Put My Keys?

By Kathy Broady MSW 11 Comments

Last night I lost my keys in the office.   It was a silly ordeal – they were hanging right where I last put them – but it took me awhile to remember where that was. I had a little help finding them, and I am really thankful that Mr. Janitor Man was so very kind.  He was patient with me, looking everywhere with me while I retraced my steps of the evening.  We looked under couches, in between cushions, under … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, trauma therapist Tagged With: Amnesia, Amnesiac Barriers, Appreciation, Cooperation, DID / MPD, DID Specialist, DID Survivor, DID Therapist, DID Therapy, dissociative, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Walls, Health, Helpers, Host Part, Internal Communication, Internal Cooperation, Internal System, Internal System Helpers, Janitor, Kathy Broady, Kindness, Lost Car Keys, Lost Keys, mental health, Sabotage, Self-sabotage, System Communication, System Cooperation, System Parts, System Sabotage, System Work, Talking Inside, Talking Through, Talking Together, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Treatment Goals for DID

What Did Your Mother Teach You?

By Kathy Broady MSW 29 Comments

  Mother’s Day.  Mother's Day is a hard day for a lot of dissociative trauma survivors.  It’s a day full of mixed emotions, painful longings, unhealed heartbreak.  Mother's Day hurts the people who were hurt so much by their mothers. Mothers are a complicated subject, to say the least, and the impact a mother can have on her children can and does change their lives.  Abusive or neglectful mothers can teach some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Transference Issues, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abandoned by my mother, Abandonment, Abuse, Abusive mothers, Bad Mothers, Caring, Child Parts, Compassion, Compassionate Women, Corrective Emotional Experience, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivors, Dissociative System, Emotional Healing, emotional pain, Female Therapist, Gentleness, Good Mothers, Guilt, Healing, Hurtful Mothers, Kathy Broady, Kid Parts, Kindness, Mother Issues, Mother Transference, Mother's Day, my mother abandoned me, Neglectful Mothers, Patience, Projection, Safe Therapists, Self-less, Separate the past from the present, Shame, Transference, Transference Issues, Trauma, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy, Understanding, Working through mother issues

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

Do You Need Faith to Overcome the Effects of Trauma?

By Kathy Broady MSW 44 Comments

  FAITH ??! Do you need faith to overcome the negative effects of trauma?   Faith?  Isn't that a religious or spiritual term, Kathy?   Don’t worry – I’m not a preacher – I’m not going to preach at you.   But I do believe in a thing called faith.   I do believe there is goodness and light in the world.  And I believe there is evil and darkness in the world.  There can be many complex, complicated … [Read more...]

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United States of Tara is Integrated Now? Really?

By Kathy Broady MSW 47 Comments

So here we go again. The second season of the Showtime series "United States of Tara" starring the Emmy Award winner Toni Collette has begun. The first season was full of controversial episodes, and most of the survivor population with dissociative identity disorder was disappointed and angered by the series.  Even though some of the best-known trauma psychiatrists were allegedly acting as advisors for the show, … [Read more...]

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