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When the Painful Past is the Painful Present

By Kathy Broady MSW 64 Comments

  Hello, how are you today?  Are you reading from your painful past, or are you here, in a painful present?  Does it feel like the here-and-now?  Or the way back when?  Or is Then the same as Now? I've been thinking about this topic of Past vs Present for awhile now.  I know I have written about time distortion, memory recall, flashbacks, body memories, trauma processing and all those things before.  (Please … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, Trauma Tagged With: Bad Days, Body Memories, DID / MPD, Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dreams, Flashbacks, Health, Hurting, Kathy, Kathy Broady, Memories, Memory Recall, mental health, Nightmares, pain, Put the past in the past, Time, Time Distortion, Trauma, Trauma Processing

Wishing Happiness for You in the New Year

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  Hello Hello!   Happy New Year to You!   It’s the beginning of a new time, a New Year, and nearing the end of the Holidays.  How are you feeling?  I hope that you found joy in something that warms your heart.  My wish is that you can walk peacefully through this holiday season with a priceless treasure to hold on to for years to come. I had that goal for myself too, and when I was asked what I wanted … [Read more...]

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Don’t Touch My Stuff !!

By Kathy Broady MSW 26 Comments

  Through the years, some of the most popular articles of the Discussing Dissociation blog has been about compulsive hoarding.    Compulsive Hoarding and Dissociative Disorders   Land of the Free?   I can’t explain their popularity on this blog, other than the way a rash of television programs have increased the awareness of the complications about hoarding. However, hoarding issues are typically … [Read more...]

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Expressing Anger Instead of Pain

By Kathy Broady MSW 37 Comments

  Every now and then, Dr. Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) from HBO's series, "In Treatment" comes out with a good line, full of depth, and accurate to the therapy process. In one of the episodes I saw this week, Dr. Weston says, "Is it easier to be angry with me than to look at your own pain?"  His client was throwing all kinds of angry jabs at him when clearly she was angry, upset, and miserable about her own … [Read more...]

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Difficult Holiday Times

By Kathy Broady MSW 26 Comments

  For many dissociative trauma survivors, various holidays and times of year are more difficult than other days.  Some survivors may know they typically have a difficult time at the change of seasons, or when Easter-time comes, for example, but they may not have the memories or internal information to understand why they consistently have a difficult time at that time of year. Are you struggling more now … [Read more...]

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