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Dissociative Identities Awareness Day on March 5

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

    March 5th is Dissociative Identities Awareness Day, or DID Awareness Day.    Either way you call it,  March 5th is a day that meant to increase awareness of what is officially called Dissociative Identity Disorder. Of course, we used to use the term  Multiple Personality Disorder. And nowadays, many survivors prefer the term:   Dissociative Identities.   Leave off the disorder part, thank you very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID Forum Support, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Featured post #1, Friends of Multiples, mental health, Phoenix Conference, Therapy Homework Ideas, trauma therapist Tagged With: Advocate for DID, DID Awareness Day, DID Awareness Ribbon, DID Conference Phoenix Arizona, Discussing Dissociation Educational Forum, Dissociative Identities Awareness Day, Dissociative Identity Disorder, multiple personality disorder, split personality

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Awareness Day – March 5

By Kathy Broady MSW 21 Comments

    Happy DID Awareness Day !!!   And since this is YOUR day to inform people about DID -- what is it that YOU would like to say to increase awareness about DID ?   Originally, March 5 was called National Multiple Personality Day (MPD).  But of course, we know that MPD has had a name change to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). I don't know how many non-DID folks read at this blog, … [Read more...]

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How is This Blog about Dissociative Identity Disorder Working for You?

By Kathy Broady MSW 25 Comments

    Hi, hi hi -- how are you today?   I'm feeling a bit silly, as you can see in the picture, and I'm trying out something new today. I've made a new little contact form with a few questions, and I'd like to use that, so I can hear more from you!   You don't have to use this form, but hey -- I'm proud of it, so I'm putting it right here at the top of the page.  :)      How is this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Friends of Multiples, mental health, Online Therapy, Physical Abuse, sexual abuse, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, trauma therapist Tagged With: DID / MPD, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Trauma Survivors, Kathy Broady MSW, multiple personality disorder, Online resources for DID, treatment resources, What do you think?

US of Tara – Sexual Confusion, Misconduct, and Acting-Out

By Kathy Broady MSW 14 Comments

. Oh boy. I didn’t have a chance to watch or write about last week’s episode of Showtime’s United States of Tara, so before the series got too much further, I thought I’d bring up the topic. First of all – it’s now really clear to me what people were referring to as triggering about episode two.  The sudden sexual explicitness would be triggering to a lot of trauma survivors.  If you haven’t yet seen this episode, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Internal Communication, sexual abuse, Supportive Spouses, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma, trauma therapist, United States of Tara Tagged With: AbuseConsultants.com, Acting-out sexual abuse, Buck, Dallas TX, Diablo Cody, DID / MPD, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivors, Healing from Sexual Abuse, Internal Communication, Internal Conflict, Internal System Conflict, Kathy Broady, multiple personality disorder, Re-enactments of Abuse, sexual abuse, Sexual Acting-out, Sexual confusion, Sexual Trauma, Showtime, Tara, Toni Collette, Trauma Survivors, United States of Tara, US of Tara

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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