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Kathy Broady - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Have you or any of your family gone through some very difficult or stressful times? Are you hurting? Caught in emotional turmoil? Overwhelmed by emotional pain or PTSD? Have you or any of your family members been victims of sexual abuse or violence of any kind? Are you heavy-hearted, sad, or depressed? Do you wonder who could possibly understand or listen to your pain?
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- Abandonment Issues for Dissociative Trauma Survivors with DID/MPD or Borderline Personality Disorder
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/MPD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) typically have many abandonment issues that need to be addressed in their treatment. When does abandonment occur? What can be done about it? How can a survivor heal from the deep emotional wounding caused by chronic and severe abandonment?
- 30 Potential Blocks in the Therapy Process For Clients With Dissociative Identity Disorder
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/MPD) have a long, complex treatment process ahead of them. There will be a variety of blockages that prevent maximum gain in the therapeutic process. Thirty potential blocks are listed.
- 5 More Inspiring Life-Lessons Taught by Trauma Survivors With Multiple Personalities (DID-MPD)
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Dissociative trauma survivors can be inspirational role models in life. An experienced trauma therapist notes and discusses five inspirational life-lessons demonstrated by trauma survivors: spiritual strength even under persecution, the ability to overcome adversity in life, joy-happiness and fun-filled laughter, the pure hearts of children, loving others more than yourself.
- Five Inspiring Life Lessons Taught by Trauma Survivors With Dissociative Identity Disorder DID - MPD
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] An experienced trauma therapist writes about five positive life-lessons learned from working with multiples with dissociative identity disorder. Trauma survivors can teach about the strength of the human spirit, the creativity of the mind, the strength of the mind, their incredible ability to withstand enormous physical pain, the strength of connection and the power of love. If you are a trauma survivor, do you see these strengths within yourself?
- Ten Benefits of Having Multiple Personalities and Dissociative Identity Disorder - DID, MPD
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Having Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/MPD) and multiple personalities can be complex and difficult at times, but it also comes with a number of benefits. What are the good things about being multiple?
- Writing Acronyms As a Way to Create Internal Communication For Dissociative Trauma Survivors
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Many trauma survivors have "no talk rules" that interfere with their healing process and ability to talk about their memories, family history, and their feelings. Using creative writing exercises, such as acronyms, are valid, effective, and useful options to direct clinical questioning. Acronyms can be a very helpful therapeutic tool.
- Maintaining Denial For Dissociative Trauma Survivors - Does it Help? Or Does it Hurt?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] For dissociative trauma survivors, denial can feel safer, but is it? Denial can provide cover and distance from a myriad of feelings and years of information, but holding on to denial prevents real healing. It takes a lot of hard therapy work to get through denial. But for your life to truly be your own, you have to know everything that has happened in your life.
- Current Day Abuse - When Dissociative Trauma Survivors Are Trapped, Owned, and Exploited As Adults
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] 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 years. Sometimes, the ongoing abuse is more organized than in-home family abuse. The sex slave industries can use, own, control, sell, and exploit dissociative survivors for many years. Trauma therapists must be aware of these possibilities so they can actively work with the dissociative population in order to assist them to gain freedom from ongoing abuse.
- Trauma Survivors With Dissociative Identity Disorder - Are You Being Kind to Your Internal System?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] For trauma survivors that are DID/MPD, one of the most significant therapy goals is doing internal system self care. The more dissociative folks learn to be there for their own selves, and their own insiders, the less they will depend on their therapist, or spouse, or any other outside person to "take care" of them. The more survivors can take good, positive, gentle care of their own selves, the more they will feel GOOD about themselves and their ability to handle life.
- Twenty Ways to Help Trauma Survivors Prevent Self-Injury and Self-Harm
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] When trauma survivors feel strong, overwhelming compulsions to self-injure, they often go mentally blank, and are unable to think or problem-solve in positive or helpful ways. Having a prepared list of 20 safe ideas and activities to do in the heat of a crisis can buy just enough time to get past the intensity of needing to self-injure. Repeat these safe ideas as many times as necessary. Safety First!
- 15 Ways For Dissociative Trauma Survivors to Avoid Self-Injury and Prevent Self-Harm
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Survivors of sexual abuse often struggle with self-injury (SI). This article includes a list of 15 activities to do when the urgency of self-harm is there. These ideas do not necessarily address the issues fueling the SI, but they can be a helpful distraction during an acute crisis point.
- Therapy Homework Ideas For Dissociative Trauma Survivors - Lists of 100 Reasons
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] This is an excellent journaling exercise that can be adapted to any topic at any time. Ask yourself a broad question and write out 100 responses to that question. It is a good communication tool for those working in therapy for Dissociative Identity Disorders.
- Therapy Homework Ideas For Dissociative Trauma Survivors - Collage As a Way of Communicating
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Creating a collage is another way of allowing your dissociative internal system parts to tell more about themselves. Pictures can be a powerful way of communicating. And a collage - a collection of pictures - can tell a lifetime of stories. As with any exercise that includes your whole system, it can lead to greater trust, system cooperation, and internal connection.
- Therapy Homework Ideas For Dissociative Trauma Survivors - Creating Internal System Scrapbooks
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] A fun and creative way to increase DID/MPD system communication and overall system familiarity is to make a scrapbook displaying pages that describe each of the people in your dissociative system. Getting to know your internal system is an absolute essential part to your healing and recovery, but doing system work doesn't have to be drudgery. A system scrapbook can be a wonderful treasure and a priceless keepsake for many years to come.
- Are Specialized Trauma Therapists Necessary?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Trauma survivors with sexual abuse histories, physical abuse issues, PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders need effective trauma therapy for their healing. What if an experienced trauma therapist is not available? Is it critical to work with a specialist?
- Interviewing a New Trauma Therapist - Questions For Dissociative Survivors to Keep in Mind
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] While interviewing new trauma therapists, in addition to clarifying that they have the skills and training it takes to provide proper treatment for your trauma issues, it is also important for you to ask about their approach to trauma work and dissociative disorders. Make sure their views match or blend with your own views, otherwise there will be unnecessary and unproductive conflicts ahead. Lists of sample questions are provided.
- Therapy For Dissociative Trauma Survivors - Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] A trauma therapist is a listening person who can hear what you have to say and help you to process your experiences and move beyond them, a companion in your pain and a witness to your truth. However, trauma therapy is not just about the recovery and processing of memories. It is also about learning to think and act in different and better ways. In therapy, your greatest wounds and your worst behaviors both will be exposed, examined, and engaged.
- 50 Treatment Issues For Dissociative Identity Disorder
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Dissociative Identity Disorder is caused by chronic, severe, conflicting childhood trauma coupled with isolation, neglect, and a lack of comfort. Trauma survivors with DID / MPD need extensive therapy in order to heal from the long-term effects of their abuse. Effective treatment is very complex and covers a myriad of topics.
- Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder - From Separated Splitting To Safe Solidity
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Do you have other people in your head? Splitting off and separating different selves as a way to cope with severe and excessive childhood trauma forms the foundation of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Later in life, as dissociative walls begin to crumble, the resulting internal chaos can be devastating for survivors unless they properly address their wounds and unmet needs through therapeutic treatment.
- Safety First - Assessing Safety For Sexual Abuse Survivors
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Current safety is a building block of therapy, especially for sexually abused clients. There are a number of ways that safety can be compromised for these clients. It should be an early priority of therapy to address safety first, before the deeper issues are approached.
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