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When You Know People who Want to Hurt You

By Kathy Broady MSW 27 Comments

    Do you know people that truly want to hurt you? Do you know people that are willing to hurt you on purpose? Do you know people that would hurt you over and over, again and again? Did this happen to you when you were a child? Is this experience still happening for you as an adult?     What a scary concept. What a horrifying way to grow up. It’s one thing to know that you have been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Fear, Physical Abuse, Ritual Abuse, sexual abuse, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abuse, Anxiety, Child Abuse, Chronic Abuse, Constant Danger, Danger, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Splitting, Fear, Kathy Broady, Lack of Safety, Ongoing Abuse, Panic, Panic Attacks, Safety, Self Harm, Self Injury, Self-protection, sexual abuse, SI, splitting, Trauma, Trauma Survivors, Trauma Therapists

Encouragement on a Difficult Day

By Kathy Broady MSW 47 Comments

    Hello, hello.... How are you?   Are you struggling today? I've been thinking about you, and have some kind thoughts to pass your way.   To those of you who have been having a very difficult day today – I am sorry that you are hurting so much. I can hear the wrestling with some difficult emotions, and painful options, and the pulls toward self-harm. Please know that you can fight … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Mind Control, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma Tagged With: Break their Control, Breaking the Rule, DID Survivor, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Kathy Broady, Mind Control, Programming, Protection, Safe people, Safety, Safety First, Self Destruction, Self Harm, Self Injury, self-destructive behaviors, Self-protection, SI, Suicidal Behavior, Suicidal Programming, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide, Suicide Programming, thinking about suicide, Trauma Survivor

Protecting Your Inner Self from Perpetrators

By Kathy Broady MSW 14 Comments

  Trauma survivors know all about perpetrators. Dissociative trauma survivors know all about sadistic perpetrators. Dissociative trauma survivors with a background in ritual abuse, or mind control, or sex slavery organizations know all about truly evil perpetrators.   Those of us in the world who were not directly exposed to such darkness have a hard time grasping its depth.  It seems surreal to us.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fear, Introjects, mental health, Mind Control, Ritual Abuse, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: "The Notebook", Abuse, Compassion, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissocitive Disorders, Family, Healing, Kathy Broady, Mind Control, Multiple Personality, Predators, Protecting your Inner Self, Protection, Ritual Abuse, Safety, Self-protection, sexual abuse, Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Predators, Sexually Abused, Trauma Survivors, Trauma Therapists

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

10 Life-Lessons I’ve Learned from Multiples, part 2

By Kathy Broady MSW 19 Comments

    To continue the previous post, here are five more life-lessons I’ve learned from my years working with those with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/MPD). By their life example, multiples have shown me:   6. Spiritual Strength even Under Persecution Most survivors with DID and long-term severe abuse have had various religious / spiritual connotations mixed in with that abuse, creating a version of … [Read more...]

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