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Three Difficult Scenarios involving Fathers

By Kathy Broady MSW 82 Comments

  It’s Father’s Day.  Father's Day is all about those endearing, positive, caring fathers.  But what about the abusive fathers? Fathers.  Yep, fathers are as difficult a topic for dissociative trauma survivors as mothers. Fathers often are heavily involved in the trauma history for dissociative survivors.  Most DID survivors I know have far too many painful memories involving their fathers.   I decided I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Physical Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Abandonment, Abuse, Addictions, Anger, Anxiety, Body Memories, Child Abuse, Childhood rules, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family rules, Father Issues, Fathers, Fathers as Perpetrators, Fathers that abandon their children, Fathers who are abusive, Fear, Flashbacks, Happy Father's Day, Healing, Internal Systems, Kathy Broady, Making your own decisions, Painful, Perpetrators, Physical Abuse, Saying No, Self Destruction, Self Esteem, sexual abuse, splitting, Splitting Process, Trauma Survivors

A Painful Mother’s Day – the Cards Not Written

By Kathy Broady MSW 40 Comments

  Last week, I couldn’t find the words to write about the struggles that so many dissociative survivors have on Mother’s Day.  Sometimes, Mother's Day is a very painful day. In response to that, a dissociative survivor emailed me, and has given me permission to post their thoughts about the painful side of Mother’s Day. Maybe you will relate to these difficult thoughts and painful feelings.   Every … [Read more...]

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Pie Squabbles – A Story about Internal Conflict

By Kathy Broady MSW 5 Comments

Recently, my magpie visitors set a new record high for the size of the group gathering at my balcony waiting for treats. At one single point in time, I had 18 pies there surrounding me, all squawking and squawling and calling and cheeping and chirping and whistling and warbling and garbling and gawking and flapping and hopping, each hoping to be the next in line for the little bits of bologna I was handing out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Internal Communication, Maggies, Self Injury Tagged With: Aggression, Arguing, Beak, Biology, Bird Story, DID / MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Feather, Fighting with each other, Internal Communication, Internal Conflict, Internal Fighting, Internal System Work, Kathy Broady, Maggies, magpies, Ornithology, Problem solving, Rainy Days, Recreation, Self Destruction, Self Injury, Stories about birds, System Work, Thunderstorms, Zoology

I Had a Great Time – Thanks for Asking

By Kathy Broady MSW 43 Comments

. *** trigger warning for dissociative trauma survivors *** The collage and the material discussed in this blog is emotionally intense and could be triggering.  Please be sure that you are in a safe place before reading further. . Trauma survivors with dissociative identity disorder often have to live a double life.  There is the public face, full of pretty smiles and general surface chatter that says “I’m fine”, … [Read more...]

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Doubly Difficult Days for DID Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 28 Comments

  This weekend is often a difficult weekend for trauma survivors with dissociative identity disorder.  First, there is Father’s Day (for those of us living in the USA), and secondly, it’s the Summer Solstice.  Anytime the difficult days get stacked on top of each other, it’s going to make for a complicated time.   On days when the issues seem to surface in layers, what do you do to cope? **This blog article is … [Read more...]

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