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Current Day Abuse – When Dissociative Survivors are Trapped, Owned, and Exploited as Adults

By Kathy Broady MSW 18 Comments

    Dissociative Identity Disorder is created from severe, chronic child abuse, but does that abuse automatically stop in childhood? Unfortunately, no, it does not.   All too many survivors continue to be trapped in abusive environments long after their childhood has ended.  Sometimes this abuse continues with the same family-related perpetrators that abused the survivor all throughout the childhood … [Read more...]

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Prevention of Sexual Abuse – What helps?

By Kathy Broady MSW 22 Comments

  To all the Trauma Survivors Reading this blog – I have some questions for you.   What kinds of things do you wish your parents had been able to do that would have protected you from sexual abuse?   What kinds of things would have helped prevent your being abused by people outside of the home?   If you were abused within the home, what would have helped you to get help from safe people … [Read more...]

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