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When Your Insiders are Suddenly Required to Stay Inside, against your First Preference

By Kathy Broady MSW 54 Comments

  Have you ever had this experience? When you know you are DID, and you know you have inside people, and AFTER they are used to having time to come out, to talk, to be heard, and to express their feelings, THEN you get into some social situation where all your insiders have to tuck back inside again? I’m referring to times when your inside people no longer get to present in the outside world, and no longer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: DID System Work, Emotional Expression, Emotional Freedom, Hiding inside, Internal System, Letting your kids out, Separated from each other, System Communication, Tucked Inside

10 Big Benefits of Being on the Email List for Discussing Dissociation

By Kathy Broady MSW 30 Comments

Why, Kathy?   Why should I join the email list for Discussing Dissociation?      What's the point? Are you going to spam me ? Are you going to hassle me ? Absolutely not.   In the emails, I just talk to you.  Everyday chatter.  If you have any wondering about who I am as a person, these emails will be me just being me.   You'll get to hear stories and background information that's not posted on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Online Therapy, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Building Trust, DID information, DID newsletter, Discussing Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, email newsletter, feeling better, Healing from trauma, Improving internal dialogue, Internal Communication, System Communication, Talking Together

Where Did I Put My Keys?

By Kathy Broady MSW 11 Comments

Last night I lost my keys in the office.   It was a silly ordeal – they were hanging right where I last put them – but it took me awhile to remember where that was. I had a little help finding them, and I am really thankful that Mr. Janitor Man was so very kind.  He was patient with me, looking everywhere with me while I retraced my steps of the evening.  We looked under couches, in between cushions, under … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, trauma therapist Tagged With: Amnesia, Amnesiac Barriers, Appreciation, Cooperation, DID / MPD, DID Specialist, DID Survivor, DID Therapist, DID Therapy, dissociative, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Walls, Health, Helpers, Host Part, Internal Communication, Internal Cooperation, Internal System, Internal System Helpers, Janitor, Kathy Broady, Kindness, Lost Car Keys, Lost Keys, mental health, Sabotage, Self-sabotage, System Communication, System Cooperation, System Parts, System Sabotage, System Work, Talking Inside, Talking Through, Talking Together, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Treatment Goals for DID

Picturing Dissociative Identity Disorder: Their Own Little Worlds

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  This picture is an example of an internal landscape for a trauma survivor with dissociative identity disorder.  Internal worlds are very real, and they sometimes feel more real than the external world for certain parts.  Internal worlds are more than having an imagination.  They are interactive, busy, alive places. Some survivors with DID have trouble looking inside.  Many people say they can hear things, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, trauma therapist Tagged With: Artwork, Creative, DID Artwork, DID Survivors, DID/MPD, Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Health, Inner Worlds, Internal Communication, Internal Landscape, Internal Systems, Internal Worlds, Kathy Broady, mental health, Multiplicity, Painting, System Communication, System Work, Trauma Survivors

Picturing Dissociative Identity Disorder: "Self Portrait"

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

Hello,  :-)  In a previous blog post, I made a request for artwork about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID / MPD).  Sometimes it is easier to describe experiences through images than through words. I send a special thank you to the different dissociative trauma survivors who have been willing to contribute to this project.  I will add various pictures and related comments as I receive … [Read more...]

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