List of All Articles on this blog
The following lists the dates and titles of all the articles written on this blog, in the order in which they were written. Periodic updates will include the newer posts.
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December 2008
Dec 4/08
Testing, testing…. can you hear me now??
Dec 5/08
Why do I work as a trauma therapist?
Dec 7/08
SAFETY FIRST: Assessing Safety of Sexual Abuse Survivors
Dec 8/08
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder – From Separated Splitting to Safe Solidity
Dec 9/08
50 Treatment Issues for Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dec 11/08
Therapy for Dissociative Trauma Survivors, Part 1
Dec 13/08
Are Specialized Trauma Therapists Necessary?
Dec 14/08
Blocking Therapy vs. Therapeutic Mismatch
Dec 15/08
Internet Safety for Survivors with DID / MPD
Dec 18/08
Integration: A Requirement for DID Therapy – Or Not?
Dec 19/08
Interviewing a new Therapist – Questions to Keep in Mind
Dec 21/08
Working with Cult – RA – Mind Control and Extreme Torture and Abuse
Dec 22/08
10 Qualities a Therapist Recognizes in a Good Client, part 1
Dec 23/08
10 Qualities Therapists Recognize in Good Clients, part 2
Dec 26/08
Holidays for DID Trauma Survivors… Making it Nice for the Littles
Dec 27/08
Being Kind to Your Internal System
Dec 31/08
25 Ways to Avoid Self-Injury and Prevent Self-Harm
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January 2009
Jan 1/09
Is Your Life How You Want It to Be?
Jan 3/09
Overcoming Instability Issues and Unsuccessful Memory Work
Jan 4/09
Internal Communication – The Core of Treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder, part 1
Jan 7/09
Developing Internal Communication – Starting with the Basics
Jan 10/09
Working with Difficult and Destructive Alters
Jan 11/09
Creating Internal System Scrapbooks
Jan 12/09
Using Collage as a Way of Communicating
Jan 15/09
Acronyms As a Way to Bridge Communication
Jan 16/09
Jan 17/09
25 More Ways to Avoid Self-Injury and Prevent Self-Harm
Jan 18/09
Using the Internal Landscape to Increase Internal Communication
Jan 19/09
When It’s Dark and Scary on the Inside…
Jan 23/09
Thinking Ahead — Preparation for Working with your Child Parts
Jan 24/09
Understanding Child Parts in the Dissociative System
Jan 26/09
Emotional Intensity, Safety and Memory Work
Jan 30/09
Prevention of Sexual Abuse – What helps?
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February 2009
Feb 1/09
Feb 3/09
Radio Interview with Kathy Broady
Feb 6/09
Denial — Does it help? Or does it hurt?
Feb 8/09
Dissociative Trauma Survivors – Must You Be Alone?
Feb 10/09
Current Day Abuse – When Dissociative Survivors are Trapped, Owned, and Exploited as Adults
Feb 11/09
Using the Internal Landscape to Address Dissociative System Issues
Feb 12/09
Do You Believe Everything you Read?
Feb 15/09
DID Trauma Survivors and Getting Support from Other People – or not
Feb 16/09
Do’s and Don’ts for Singleton Friends of Multiples
Feb 19/09
What Holes are in your Healing Sidewalks?
Feb 22/09
Lack of Acceptance of Dissociative Parts and Their Life Histories
Feb 24/09
Ten Benefits of Being Multiple
Feb 27/09
2009 CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
Feb 28/09
What if you don’t like being Multiple?
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March 2009
Mar 4/09
Quotes from the Crimes Against Women Conference
Mar 7/09
Getting Back Those Lost, Missing Chunks of Time
Mar 8/09
10 Life-Lessons I’ve Learned from Multiples, part 1
Mar 14/09
10 Life-Lessons I’ve Learned from Multiples, part 2
Mar 15/09
Addressing Depression in Trauma Disorders
Mar 19/09
What do you think about Suicide?
Mar 21/09
30 Potential Blocks in the Therapy Process
Mar 22/09
Child Parts – When They Hold Suicidal Power and Influence
Mar 26/09
Mar 27/09
Organized Perpetrator Groups for Mind Control, Sexual Exploitation, and Ritualized Abuses
Mar 28/09
United States of Tara – Going too Far
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April 2009
Apr 1/09
United States of Tara – If you were the writer…
Apr 5/09
Apr 10/09
Apr 12/09
Apr 13/09
HBO’s “In Treatment” – Is That What Therapy is Like?
Apr 15/09
Negative Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse Survey
Apr 18/09
Apr 25/09
Long-term Costs Severe Child Abuse
Apr 26/09
Expressing Anger Instead of Pain
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May 2009
May 2/09
May 3/09
May 8/09
Introjects – What are Introjects?
May 9/09
Mothers and Mother’s Day for Trauma Survivors
May 10/09
Protective Mothers that Fight for their Children
May 15/09
May 17/09 CIA MIND CONTROL: Out Of Darkness Into The Light
May 18/09 Interested in Group Conversation?
May 23/09 One Life to Live and Jessica’s Integration
May 31/09 Now I have lost my father…
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June 2009
June 6/09 First Discussing Dissociation Group Chat
June 7/09 12 Tips for Reducing Shame
June 10/09 How Dissociative Are You?
June 11/09 Scoring the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES)
June 13/09 Body Memories – The Body Remembering
June 14/09 Do Therapists Know Enough about Dissociative Disorders?
June 20/09 Believing a Lie – the Foundation of Dissociation
June 25/09 When a Perpetrator Dies….
June 28/09 Protecting Your Inner Self from Perpetrators
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July 2009
July 4/09 20 Signs of Unresolved Trauma
July 12 /09 Cats and Dogs and Trauma Survivors
July 14/09 Split Decisions
July 16/09 Being Hated, Feeling Hated, Overcoming Self-Hatred
July 19/09 Life-Changing Heartbreak
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August 2009
Aug 2/09 20 Types of Dissociative Splits
Aug 17/09 Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder, part 1
Aug 18/09 Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder, part 2
Aug 28/09 The Love / Hate Relationship for Borderlines
Aug 30/09 Protecting Your Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Community
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September 2009
Sept 6/09 When Blogs are a Healing Resource for Survivors
Sept 9/09 Encouragement on a Difficult Day
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October 2009
Oct 10/09 Can You Lead Your System?
Oct 18/09 Safety First – Recognizing and Leaving Domestic Violence
Oct 23/09 Remembering Annemaria
Oct 31/09 The Layers of Halloween Weekend
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November 2009
Nov 10/09 When You Suddenly Lose Your Therapist
Nov 15/09 Attachment to the Perpetrator
Nov 21/09 Why Do You Need a Therapist Anyway?
Nov 28/09 I’m Thankful for the Readers of this Blog
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December 2009
Dec 5/09 Multiplicity – Keaton Style
Dec 6/09 Compulsive Hoarding and Dissociative Disorders
Dec 12/09 When You Know People who Want to Hurt You
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January 2010
Jan 1/10 What are you going to do?
Jan 3/10 Hopelessness and Despair
Jan 19/10 Externalizing Responsibility vs. Internalizing Responsibility
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February 2010
Feb 2 /10 Mind Control in the Media
Feb 10/10 10 DID Therapy 101 Tips
Feb 15 /10 I Knew You Could! – a children’s story
Feb 18/10 Can You Picture Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Feb 19/10 Picturing Dissociative Identity Disorder: “Self Portrait”
Feb 20/10 Picturing Dissociative Identity Disorder: Their Own Little Worlds
Feb 21/10 Picturing DID/MPD – From_Ashes
Feb 24/10 Pictures of DID – “How I View My Head”
Feb 27/10 Picturing Parts of a Dissociative System
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March 2010
Mar 6/10 Dual Mask – A Picture of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Mar 8/10 Picturing the Healing Process for Dissociative Identity Disorder
Mar 19/10 Who Really Did It?
Mar 20/10 The Changing of the Seasons
Mar 23/10 United States of Tara is Integrated Now? Really?
Mar 28/10 Picturing a Group of Insiders – a Dissociative System
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April 2010
Apr 3/10 This is Easter Weekend
Apr 4/10 Do You Need Faith to Overcome the Effects of Trauma?
Apr 5/10 US of Tara – Sexual Confusion, Misconduct, and Acting-Out
Apr 10/10 Not Getting to Be Your True Self – But Whose Life is it Anyway?
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May 2010
May 9, 2010 What Did Your Mother Teach You?
May 24, 2010 Sorting through Transference Issues
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June 2010
June 20, 2010 Doubly Difficult Days for DID Survivors
June 25, 2010 Where Did I Put My Keys?
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July 2010
July 4, 2010 Land of the Free?
July 10, 2010 I Had a Great Time – Thanks for Asking
behindthecouch said,
February 13, 2009 at 11:14 am
Hey Kathy, this is a great resource list. Have you thought about making all of these links “live” so that people can easily get to older posts?
BTC.x
Kathy Broady said,
February 13, 2009 at 2:14 pm
oh btc —
Yes!!!! That was my original intention. BUT…. I can’t figure out how to do that yet!! ha ha ha ha…. (ridiculous, right?)
I’ve seen your extensive page listings showing different articles as links… and admired it, lol. One of these days, this page will hopefully link to all the articles like yours does.
Kathy
behindthecouch said,
February 23, 2009 at 4:22 am
you should have received something by now that might help.
dollswise said,
February 26, 2009 at 1:07 am
Oh I do hope you can make these links to specific articles live. Would truly help w devices w browsers
Kathy Broady said,
March 3, 2009 at 12:20 am
lol….
well??? BTC is trying her best to help me out…. I’m a little slow on these things, but I’ll get it one of these days
k.
muffledones said,
April 23, 2009 at 8:10 am
Its a good resource these posts of yours Kathy, but unfortunate that they are not very accessable…..
I don’t always have alot of time to read, so trying to navigate and hunt means I miss out.
I kinda scattered alot.
I really hope you can work on having links sooner.
Sorry I am no help.
Thanks that you do this blog.
I kinda wonder why.
But proly you just nice and it your thing.
Twitter kinda creeps me…..kinda like stalking or something.
Just me.
OK.
Sorry if I be negative, just you got good things to say.
Thx
Kathy Broady said,
May 2, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Hey Everyone — Look!!!
This page is now linked.
I hope this helps you all to navigate the Discussing Dissociation blog as easily as possible. The blog is growing by leaps and bounds, and now that it is getting as big as it is, I can certainly understand why it is helpful to have links to find things.
THANK YOU, everyone, for being such avid readers and participants. I truly appreciate your interactions here.
Kathy
muffledones said,
May 2, 2009 at 9:24 pm
awsome, thx!
Kathy Broady said,
May 3, 2009 at 3:44 pm
You’re very welcome.
I hope this list helps to make the different posts more accessible.
Kathy
soulfeet said,
June 30, 2009 at 11:13 am
Thank you for this list of articles.
Great resource!!
~carol welch
I linked it on a blog post I just wrote.
http://tossandripple.blogspot.com/2009/06/flashbacks-dissociation-and-back-again.html
Kathy Broady said,
June 30, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Thanks Carol -
Great blog article by the way.
And thanks for the link — I appreciate that!!!
Oh — and to respond to the comment on your blog, yes, there is a whole continuum of dissociation — from a normal “everyday” level of dissociating to a more extreme level of dissociation that is considered a serious mental health disorder, with all kinds of graduations in between.
I wish the best for you on your healing journey –
Kathy
soulfeet said,
July 2, 2009 at 10:34 am
Thank you Kathy…for the well wishes and the compliment.
At some point I’d like to share the discovery of, what I’ve termed, my ‘personas’ that I have identified. This was something I’ve found in the last few years without knowing about dissociation. I don’t think I suffer from DID as a diagnostic health disorder (nor have ever been diagnosed as such), but I recognize that I have been/still am at times challenged with uncomfortable/dysfunctional dissociative states (obviously).
Enough for now.
I’ll endeavor to find the appropriate post on which to comment regarding the ‘personas.’
Thanks again for this valuable blog and your generosity in sharing this much needed information.
Cheers!
Carol
Kathy Broady said,
December 4, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Hi everyone,
Discussing Dissociation has been here for a year now!
What’s your favorite article???
???
dianacuz said,
December 5, 2009 at 9:51 am
I like all the articles but the one that i go back to the most is the Feb. 22, 2009 article Lack of Acceptance of Dissociative Parts and Their Life Histories. I think this is because this is still a big issue here that requires a lot of work. But to pick a favorite article is very difficult.
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January 5, 2010 at 12:57 pm
WOW !! Thank you so much for including this info about Discussing Dissociation on your list of Best Tweets!
That’s a real honor. Thank you.
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muffledones said,
February 12, 2010 at 9:57 am
Thx that you updated this.
I think its important cuz its an easy way to find what you want to read.
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tidesofemotion said,
May 7, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Hi Chasingfairies,
that sounds very hard. I’m so sorry for what you are going trough (and went trough).
Although my actual situation is completely different, I wanted to respond to what you wrote.
Just some thoughts as I read along your post:
1) You wrote ‘I know I could robot myself through if I choose’. Apparently you haven’t made that choice so far to dissociate through it, though that would be easy enough. I find it very brave of you that you wrote here instead and choose to express the hard feelings you’re dealing with. That’s good, no? I know how difficult it is to make that choice. I too have ‘bots’ like that inside and letting them take over is tempting (a lot). I hope you find the strength the next couple of days to sit it through the best you can, without the necessity to switch to those bots, so you can stay aware of what it means to you and maybe get more insights from it. (easy said, I know)
2) I’m sorry you suddenly became the host after such a long period of time and had to adress a reality that is so not how you would see it for yourself if you were left the choice. That must be extremely painful.
I as the host of the system choose willingly not to have children, out of fear and out of the knowledge too that I have two insiders who would be inclined to do bad things to them or in the least wouldn’t want to take care of them when they (those insiders) would come out and take charge. The big difference being: I was left with the choice, where you haven’t, because I have been the host most of my adult life.
(and by the way: altough not the slightest comparable to your situation, I too was ruled by an anorexic alter the past few years (until last year). I hope you find a way to somehow compromise with her, like I did.)
3) I only recently realised that my mother is sort of DID like me and I have almost no recollection whatsoever of an adult mom. She mostly switched between child and sadistic monster. I know she suffered from abuse by her own mother. If I had outside children now, I would be the next generation of messed up mothers that would continue the madness. NO WAY!
You were forced to deal with the reality of having outside children to take care for. And those kids didn’t have a choice either. They’re here now.
I believe it’s good of you to acknowledge the fact that it’s hard for you, good that you can see the parallells between your feelings and those of your mother and maybe can think it through, good that you realise: I have to turn around now and do the right thing for my (outside) kids.
YOU ARE NOT YOUR MOTHER. And you didn’t choose to be messed up inside!! It’s the result of things done to you when all what was left for you was to somehow survive by fragmenting the way you did. Oh, I know all about suicidal feelings and self-injury myself, but why punish yourself for things that are the mere result of things outside of your control? You should be angry with your mother.
And even more important: you didn’t have the choice back then when those bad things happened, you didn’t have much choice when you weren’t the host of the system, but now you have a real choice of how you deal with reality, you yourself can make the decisions now every single moment again: you can choose to let your bots take over or not; you can choose to self injure or not. And if you do, then that’s the way you choose to deal with your emotions. And that’s ok, if that’s your choice. The big difference being: then you do it with awareness, not blindly dragged along by your anger and pain. That’s a choice you have there. You can choose to attack a pillow instead, to smash dishes, to vent your intense emotions another, less self-destructive way, you can write about it here or on a forum, where people will be willing to listen. There are people who care! (I care enough to respond!).You really don’t deserve any punishment.
I will think of you (and the others who struggle the next few days with it being Mother’s Day). I will know that I’m not the only one that is hurting and emotional. Maybe all of us can unite in thoughts of strength and positive energy the upcoming Sunday. That would help.
Take care!
Cynthia
woundgal said,
August 8, 2010 at 9:35 am
Is is possible to write a blog on developing coconsiousness. I have 2 new alters that have surfaced. 1 who wrote in our journal but won’t seem to give me access to him. I have written him back but nothing yet. The others in the system can’t hear or see him either. He says he is on another level hiding. Thanks for the consideration
Kathy Broady said,
August 11, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Hi Woundgal
It’s nice to see you here!
There are several articles written about developing internal communication — please go to the Categories drop down box, and select internal communication. Those articles might provide a starting place for you.
( http://discussingdissociation.wordpress.com/category/internal-communication/ )
I can think about the way you worded your situation tho’ — I’m sure I can find some things to say, lol
Thanks for the question – I’ll add it to my topic list.
Kathy
woundgal said,
August 11, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Kathy,
Thanks for your response, I read both of those articles but they don’t address the issue of when the alter doesn’t want coconsciousness yet is making demands as a protector (via the journal) of “if the protector sees the host in an unsafe situation, place or with people” and the protector allows the host to hear what the protector wants the host to do and if the host doesn’t heed the protectors warning and doesn’t think doing what the alter believes is prudent that the protector alter will come forward and take over anyway.
So for me developing coconsiousness going both ways is key. We are working on disearnment right now as the alter is a little and his idea of safety may not be realistic now….
I know it sounds complicated. I actively communicate with my system but am having trouble with these 2 new alters that don’t want anything to do with the “system”. I feel like I am being held hostage. My system can’t hear or see these 2 new ones that claim to be on another level.
Sorry if this dialoge is not appropriate in this section but I didn’t know where else to go with my question and I have benefited greatly from so many of your blogs especially the introject vs. presecutor alter?
Thanks Woundgal
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Kathy Broady said,
March 30, 2013 at 6:43 pm
Yikes — this “List of All Articles” page is really behind. Sorry about that — I will have to add it to my never-ending “List of Things to Do”, lol. Yeeesh.
Anyway, as of today, there are nearly 200 articles, and over 3000 comments from readers here, so please look through the categories feature to find some of the articles that have been written but aren’t yet posted on this page. We talk about all kinds of different things here at Discussing Dissociation.
And thank you for posting this link on Forums at Psych Central. That is very much appreciated.
Happy reading, everyone.
Warmly,
Kathy