This exercise is typically used when our days are chaotic because some parts are not aware of the plans others have made and we accidentally work against each other. We miss appointments, do things twice or forget them altogether, we might be chronically late or irrationally worried about being late etc. It is also a […]
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Preparing for difficult situations
We sometimes face difficult situations or events and we cannot avoid them because they are important (medical exams, our best friend’s wedding) or they will happen no matter what we do (anniversaries). We need to find a way to reduce the negative impact as much as possible and maybe even turn this into a success. […]
How to choose trauma content for processing
Sooner or later in our recovery journey we will have to decide where to start processing. Because of the amount of trauma we experienced we cannot possibly process everything and the good news is that we don’t have to. But we will have to use some kind of concept to help us prioritize what to […]
About the alternative diagnostic criteria for DID (Dell)
One of my great pleasures in life is reading scientific discourse. Specifically, when great minds discuss scientific theories and approaches and everyone picks on the problems in each other’s theory or framework. If you like these things, please make sure to read Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders, articles by various specialists collected by Paul […]
Creating our own hell: Reenactments
Although TraumaTime is long past, many survivors struggle to create a life that is safe, peaceful and meaningful. It is as if we are somehow jinxed. We start out with good intentions and end up with the opposite of what we wanted. Sometimes that’s because we don’t have the support or resources we need and […]
Helping masochistic parts
CN: We talk about sexuality, pain, BDSM, (organized) abuse and explicit problems with masochism that can happen after extreme abuse and offer interventions that include sex education and experiments with sexual pleasure. Please don’t read this when you are unstable and stop reading when you get triggered too much. Like, now. If you are already […]
Overcoming patterns of appeasement and submission
We think of appeasement as a collection of social behaviors that aim to restore a safe relationship and maybe attachment with another person who is perceived as more powerful or threatening. If we gave them any cause to be angry with us, we need to fix it and make them calm down and like us […]
Unintentionally destabilizing a DID System
There are a lot of individual things that can go wrong in DID therapy. And there are also predictable patterns where a certain type of mistake will lead to a certain type of problem. Of course that won’t fit every system on the planet. But it fits often enough to be more than random. We […]
Techniques of science denial and DID
CN: this article mentions organized abuse, ritual abuse, mind control, abuser organizations, stigma and infuriating bullshit There is a lot of misinformation out there about DID. Some of it is based on a lack of knowledge and we can help by pointing towards scientific resources. In other situations, what we encounter is plain denial […]
The Fractionated Abreaction Technique (Kluft)
Fractionated abreaction is a technique that was specifically created to process extreme abuse and memories that are so atrocious that other techniques fail because we get flooded and overwhelmed instantly when we remember what happened. An abreaction is a situation where we remember and re-experience a memory and when that happens accidentally and uncontrollably […]
Finger Signals in DID Therapy
Especially early in our therapy we will run into situations where it would be necessary to communicate and negotiate with other parts but we can’t because we haven’t established a line of communication yet. We don’t hear these parts and they don’t have a way to reach us except maybe through creating symptoms in our […]
IRRT for Complex Trauma and Dissociation
IRRT stands for Imagery Rescripting and Reprocessing Therapy. It is a technique for processing trauma memories that mainly uses imagery and self states to resolve situations that are stuck. Instead of blunt exposure we change the story in our head and take care of our younger self to achieve changes in our symptoms. IRRT […]
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