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Not Getting to Be Your True Self – But Whose Life is it Anyway?

By Kathy Broady MSW 24 Comments

Do you get to be your real self? I’ve been wondering what else I could teach about Dissociative Identity Disorder, using an episode of United States of Tara as the example.  Then I remembered the last minute of a show about Buck and his emotional pain.   And I thought more of how very painful and how very real that heartbreak is for Buck. Throughout this season two, Tara has struggled with the fact … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Internal Communication, Supportive Spouses, Therapy Homework Ideas, United States of Tara Tagged With: Acceptance, Be your real self, Buck, Diablo Cody, DID / MPD, DID Survivor, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, heartbreak, Host Personalities, Internal Communication, Internal Conflict, Internal Cooperation, Joey Lauren Adams, John Corbett, Kathy Broady, Kindness, Male Alters, Resolving System Conflict, Sharing, SurvivorForum.com, System Conflict, System Cooperation, Tara, Teamwork, Toni Collette, Trauma Survivors, Treatment for DID / MPD, Treatment Goals for DID, True self, United States of Tara, US of Tara

US of Tara – Sexual Confusion, Misconduct, and Acting-Out

By Kathy Broady MSW 14 Comments

. Oh boy. I didn’t have a chance to watch or write about last week’s episode of Showtime’s United States of Tara, so before the series got too much further, I thought I’d bring up the topic. First of all – it’s now really clear to me what people were referring to as triggering about episode two.  The sudden sexual explicitness would be triggering to a lot of trauma survivors.  If you haven’t yet seen this episode, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Internal Communication, sexual abuse, Supportive Spouses, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma, trauma therapist, United States of Tara Tagged With: AbuseConsultants.com, Acting-out sexual abuse, Buck, Dallas TX, Diablo Cody, DID / MPD, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivors, Healing from Sexual Abuse, Internal Communication, Internal Conflict, Internal System Conflict, Kathy Broady, multiple personality disorder, Re-enactments of Abuse, sexual abuse, Sexual Acting-out, Sexual confusion, Sexual Trauma, Showtime, Tara, Toni Collette, Trauma Survivors, United States of Tara, US of Tara

United States of Tara is Integrated Now? Really?

By Kathy Broady MSW 47 Comments

So here we go again. The second season of the Showtime series "United States of Tara" starring the Emmy Award winner Toni Collette has begun. The first season was full of controversial episodes, and most of the survivor population with dissociative identity disorder was disappointed and angered by the series.  Even though some of the best-known trauma psychiatrists were allegedly acting as advisors for the show, … [Read more...]

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United States of Tara – If you were the writer…

By Kathy Broady MSW 16 Comments

Obviously, there is a tremendous amount of controversy and upset among the survivor community about how Showtime has presented Dissociative Identity Disorder in United States of Tara series. Thank you, everyone, for so many lively comments on the previous post about this topic.  I think that's excellent.  It is very good to speak up about your cause and let the world know how it really is.  One way to combat the … [Read more...]

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