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This is Easter Weekend

By Kathy Broady MSW 38 Comments

    Hi, This is Easter weekend. For DID trauma survivors with a ritual abuse (RA) background, this is a very difficult weekend, full of difficult memories, painful emotions, and system conflicts.   *** I’m going to speak of some of the horrors of ritual abuse – here is your trigger warning – for those of you that need one of those. ***   With ritual abuse, anything that represented something … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, Fun!, mental health, Mind Control, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Darkness, Day church vs Night Church, DID, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Easter, Easter baking, Easter eggs, Easter treats, Easter Weekend, Good vs. Evil, Healing, Healing from Ritual Abuse, Kathy Broady, Multiple Personalities, Multiplicity, Opposite, Painful emotions, RA, Ritual Abuse, Ritually Abused, Sadistic Abuse, Sadistic criminals, sexual abuse, Sexual Violence, Sexually Abused, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritually Abused, System Conflicts, Trauma Survivors, Violence

Seeing Multiplicity – Keaton Style

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  Multiplicity, the 1996 movie with Michael Keaton, is not specifically about Dissociative Identity Disorder – it is technically about being cloned -- but it is a funny, light-hearted comedy that absolutely pertains to DID / MPD.   Have you watched this show? Keaton’s character has a lot in common with DID.  As you watch the movie, you can see the following similarities happen in this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Friends of Multiples, Internal Communication, Supportive Spouses Tagged With: Andie MacDowell, Cloning, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, DID Treatment Goals, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivor, Guidelines for DID Therapy, Internal Communication, Internal Cooperation, Kathy Broady, Michael Keaton, Multiple Personalities, Multiple Personality, multiple personality disorder, Multiplicity, Multiplicity in the Media, split personality, System Communication, System Cooperation, System Work

United States of Tara – If you were the writer…

By Kathy Broady MSW 16 Comments

Obviously, there is a tremendous amount of controversy and upset among the survivor community about how Showtime has presented Dissociative Identity Disorder in United States of Tara series. Thank you, everyone, for so many lively comments on the previous post about this topic.  I think that's excellent.  It is very good to speak up about your cause and let the world know how it really is.  One way to combat the … [Read more...]

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