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Demonstrating DID System Work with Dark Side Parts during a Difficult Time

By Kathy Broady MSW 36 Comments

  October is a particularly heavy month for most dissociative trauma survivors.  It's the changing of the seasons, and the time when darker sides of many DID systems surface.   October is when many of the darker insiders have had trauma memories, and it's typically a month when many dissociative survivors feel heightened PTSD symptoms, fear, and anxiety.  It's a month filled with significant dates for anyone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Be brave!, DID healing journey, DID System Work, Dissociative Identity Disorder, From darkness to light, Healing from Ritual Abuse, Healing Process, Leaving the Darkness, Making healthy changes, October strugggles, PTSD, Treatment Goals for DID

What Would Your Perfect Treatment Plan Look Like?

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

Hello Everyone, I've been continuing to add links to the List of All Articles page, and while doing so, I came across this article written in 2010. It has 50 wonderful comments from the readers of this blog (wow! that's excellent!), and I decided to bring this topic back up to view. What do you think? Do you agree or disagree with the comments presented? Do you have your own comment to add? What would the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, trauma therapist Tagged With: DID Treatment, DID/MPD, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Treatment Goals for DID

Integration – A New Category and Nine Quick Opinions

By Kathy Broady MSW 44 Comments

  Hello, hello ! I hope you are doing well today. This will be a short post, but I made an important update to the Discussing Dissociation blog and wanted to be sure that you all knew about it. I have been asked repeatedly about my views on integration.  I’ve written posts and comments about this topic, but unfortunately, I didn’t create a “category” for these posts. So now, with around 400 articles on this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Integration - yes or no, Internal Communication, mental health Tagged With: Blended layers, Blending, Building Trust, Category for Integration, Dark insiders, DID / MPD, Discussing Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Walls, Genuine relationships, Healing, Healing Process, In my opinion, Integration, Internal Communication, Internal splitting, Internal Worlds, is integration necessary?, Kathy Broady, lures into darkness, Safety, Singleton, Splits, Talking Together, Talking with your insiders, Team work, Treatment Goals, Treatment Goals for DID

100,000 Thanks to You

By Kathy Broady MSW 10 Comments

Hello to all the Readers of the Discussing Dissociation Blog – Earlier this year, I set a personal goal of inviting at least 100,000 readers to this blog in one calendar year. Thanks to each of you, the Discussing Dissociation Blog has surpassed that goal!! THANK YOU!   I deeply appreciate each of you that have participated in this blog. I appreciate the colors your have brought to this blog, and … [Read more...]

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Freedom of Choice and Client Empowerment or Therapeutic Exploitation?

By Kathy Broady MSW 22 Comments

  I would like to make a follow-up comment from a comment made on the “What Would Your Perfect Treatment Plan Look Like?” blog.    Specifically, a portion of heartofindigo’s comment includes the following paragraph:     a final comment: I wish that T’s would do exactly what you are doing, and ask. I have heard of so many… can’t think of a way to put this delicately… asinine demands on the patient. like the … [Read more...]

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