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Are Newborn Babies Born with Innocence and Purity? How about You?

By Kathy Broady MSW 30 Comments

You probably thought I was going to talk about kids, or children, or babies. And I might. But first, what about newborn puppies? This post is partly for fun -- because you know I just can’t resist sharing more pictures of my puppies ! But to be fair, I do have a few thoughts related to trauma issues when I look at these pictures.  I am starting to think that I might just have to make a “puppy series”.  :) First, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Puppies, Therapy Homework Ideas, Transference Issues Tagged With: Blaming children, Bulldog puppies, Child Parts, Children are innocent, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Externalizing Blame, Externalizing Responsibility, Good vs. bad, I am bad, Innocence, Kathy Broady, Multiplicity, Newborn babies, Newborn puppies, Olde English Bulldog, Olde English Bulldogge, Projection, Projection of blame, Puppies, Purity, Transference, Trauma Survivors, Working with child parts, You are not bad

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.   It's so complicated, especially when you think about how important  mothers are to their children, and what their behavior teaches their children. Mother's Day hurts the people who were hurt so much by their mothers. Mothers are a complicated subject, … [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, Working through mother issues

Protecting Your Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Community

By Kathy Broady MSW 106 Comments

  There are thousands of clinical therapists in the world.   However, of all the therapists in the world, only a few work with trauma and PTSD.   Of all the trauma therapists, only a few work with the areas of sexual abuse and severe trauma.   Of those therapists, only a few work with dissociative disorders, DID/MPD and DDNOS.   Of the DID therapists, only a very few work with issues relating to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Borderline Personality Disorder, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Self Injury, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Transference Issues, trauma therapist Tagged With: Boundaries, BPD, BPD Behaviors, DDNOS, Destructive Behavior, Destructive Gossip, Destructive Survivors, DID Community, DID Therapists, DID/MPD, Displacement, Dissociative Community, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Population, Fakers, False Accusations, False Allegations, Gossip, Haters, Honesty, Ignore gossip, Kathy Broady, Liars, Losing Therapeutic Resources, Loss of Therapist, Love-Hate, Lying for attention, Lying to get attention, Lying to therapists, Mental Health Professionals, Not following bad examples, Projection, Protecting your therapeutic resouces, Protecting your therapist, Protection, PTSD, Sabotage, Self Destructive Behavior, Therapeutic Resources, Think for yourself, Transference Issues, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy

Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder, part 2

By Kathy Broady MSW 45 Comments

  Welcome to the second half of “Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder”.  The first seven tips have been previously posted.  At this point in time, I will continue with the list of tips for how to specifically address chronic depression for trauma survivors with DID:   8. As the memories surface, feelings will also surface.  Expressing genuine emotion is key to working through depression.  Crying tears of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Internal Communication, mental health, Self Injury, therapy, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Anger, Blame, Chronic Depression, Depressed Parts, Depression, DID/MPD, Displacement, Displacement of Emotion, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative System, Dissociative Wall, Emotional Expression, Feeling Depressed, Healing, Internal Communication, MDD, Memory Work, Misdirected Anger, Projection, Self Injury, Suicidal Thoughts, Transference, Trauma memories, Trauma Survivor, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy, Trauma Work, Treatment Goal for DID

Believing a Lie – the Foundation of Dissociation

By Kathy Broady MSW 43 Comments

  What makes it difficult for trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder to know the truth? How easy is it to trick someone with DID with a lie? When are survivors lying to themselves? When does dissociation block out information to know the difference? When does pain, especially emotional pain, become the deciding factor in what survivors believe, regardless of truth? When does the viciousness … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, Physical Abuse, Ritual Abuse, sexual abuse, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abuse, Amnesiac Walls, Anger, Back-stabbing, Believing a Lie, Betrayal, Blame, Denial, Detachment, DID/MPD, Dissociation, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivors, Dissociative Walls, Emotional Abuse, emotional pain, Family that Lies, Friends that Lie, Honesty, Kathy Broady, Lying, Lying to Yourself, multiple personality disorder, Perpetrators, Physical Abuse, Projection, PTSD, Ritual Abuse, Self-delusion, Self-protection, sexual abuse, Sexually Abused, split personality, splitting, The Splitting Process, Trauma, Trauma Survivors, Truth

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