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...]
Picturing a Group of Insiders – a Dissociative System
Isn’t this an interesting picture of Dissociative Identity Disorder?! Assuming the artist of this picture is a trauma survivor with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID / MPD), this drawing shows many of the system insiders. I can't say that I know this person has DID for sure -- meaning -- I haven't met the artist, I haven't met their inside people, I haven't met the treatment team, and I … [Read more...]
Picturing the Healing Process for Dissociative Identity Disorder
This set of picture-postcards demonstrates a passage through time for a trauma survivor with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID / MPD). These pictures show different phases of the dissociative healing process, and illustrate how healing occurs. Notice that they move from a more shattered, painful, chaotic place to a calmer, structured, organized place. Where there is originally nothing but a fragmented … [Read more...]
When You Know People who Want to Hurt You
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...]
Attachment to the Perpetrator
I saw another television documentary on Jaycee Lee Dugard - the young woman who was kidnapped at age 11, held captive for 18 years, and found alive, along with her two daughters on August 26, 2009. At the time of the documentary, Jaycee was about 40 years old. Jaycee spent 18 years held captive in the backyard of a registered, violent sex offender, Phillip Garrido. Garrido fathered Jaycee's two daughters, … [Read more...]
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