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20 Types of Dissociative Splits

By Kathy Broady MSW 122 Comments

    It always amazes me when dissociative trauma survivors tell me that after they've met three or four of their inside alters (or maybe even a few more than that, but not many), that they think they've met everyone in their system.  They think they don't have that many dissociative splits in their DID system, or they think that they are "done" meeting their insiders. That never makes sense to me.  Oh, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured Post #2, Internal Communication, Kathy's Video Comments, Ritual Abuse, sexual abuse, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Abusive Fathers, Abusive mothers, Abusive Parents, Child Parts, Denial, DID Treatment, DID/MPD, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Splits, Dysfunctional Family, Emotion, Emotional Containment, Floaters, Health, Host Parts, Internal System Helpers, Internal Systems, Introjects, Kathy Broady, Loyalty, Memory Work, mental health, Mind Control, multiple personality disorder, Organized Perpetrators, Programming, PTSD, Roles within the system, splitting, Trauma, Trauma Survivors, treatment for DID, Types of Alters for DID, Types of Splitting

Body Memories – The Body Remembering

By Kathy Broady MSW 68 Comments

  Body Memories -- ouch!   In the television show "One Life To Live" -- Bess tried to rescue Jessica one more time by taking baby Chloe and going on the run.  Their secret had gotten out -- baby Chloe belonged to someone else and the dear little one was not Jessica's baby at all. Tess was angry with Bess for trying this last stunt.  Every time Bess looked in the mirror, she would see Tess's angry face … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, One Life to Live, sexual abuse, therapy, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abuse, Body Memories, Body memory, Cellular Memory, DID/MPD, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Emotion, Healing, Healing from Sexual Abuse, Jessica Buchanan, Kathy Broady, Memory Work, One Life to Live, pain, Physical body, PTSD, sexual abuse, Sexually Abused, Tess, therapy, Trauma, Treatment of DID

12 Tips for Reducing Shame

By Kathy Broady MSW 56 Comments

  Need some tips for reducing shame? One of the hardest areas of healing work in trauma disorders is dealing with shame.  For many survivors of sexual abuse, healing work involves learning about a lot of intense memories that leave them feeling a great deal of shame, humiliation, and embarrassment.  These are difficult emotions to process, and the memory material is typically very overwhelming. Some survivors … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured Posts #3, Self Injury, sexual abuse, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Amnesia, Anxiety, Depression, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivors, Dissociative Walls, emotional pain, Healing, Host Alters, Internal System, Kathy Broady, Memory Work, Pornography, Prostitution, PTSD, Safety, Self Injury, Sex Offenders, Sex Slave Industry, Sex Slavery, sexual abuse, Sexual Exploitation, Shame, Suicidal Behavior, Suicidal Feelings, Suicidal Thoughts, Trauma Disorders, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy, treatment for DID

One Life to Live and Jessica’s Integration

By Kathy Broady MSW 14 Comments

  Multiplicity has made it into the Soap Opera world. On the soap opera, "One Life to Live", the character named Jessica Buchanan has Dissociative Identity Disorder.  In earlier episodes, Jessica spent a fair bit of time in an inpatient hospital unit addressing her trauma, her grief, etc.  According to Jessica, she resolved her difficult emotional issues and dealt with her internal system conflicts so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, One Life to Live, Trauma Tagged With: Amnesia, Amnesiac Wall, DID/MPD, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Walls, Goals for DID, Healing, Host Alters, Integration, Internal Communication, Jessica Buchanan, Kathy Broady, Listening, Listening to inside, Listening to your insiders, Memory Work, One Life to Live, Processing Trauma, Soap Opera, split personality, therapy, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Treatment Goal for DID

Reclaiming the Holidays

By Kathy Broady MSW 14 Comments

  Do you remember the Discussing Dissociation article called “Holidays for DID Trauma Survivors… Making it Nice for the Littles”? If you have not yet read that article, please check it out.  It was written in reference to holidays during the Christmas season, but the points are still very much applicable today on Easter, and during Passover. We have seen the numerous comments from people about how the Spring … [Read more...]

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