Reply to any topics below, or anything else you want to say:

1. What people say vs what they do
2. Feelings about Mothers Day
3. When doctors don’t take your physical health seriously because of your mental health diagnosis
4. Therapy issues: wanna quit, losing time, do I need it?, what do I really need to work on?, sometimes seems like a waste of time, etc.
5. Stability
6. Control over switching
7. Dr Phil show on DID
8. Determining what I will and won’t deal with or live with

Dr. Phil just aired a show about MPD/DID on Thursday, May 10th, 2012. What did you think about it?

Here’s the link to some videos on his page:
http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/1846

And here is a short clip from the show:

Reply to any topics below, or anything else you want to say:

1. Needing space for shifting due to overdoing containment
2. Amnesia
3. When it seems my alters have disappeared. Or when it gets really quiet. Or noisy!
4. Is integration a choice?
5. Overcompensation as a parent, due to our past

Talk about any of the recent meeting topics:

1. What is real integration, considering that people with DID actually have an altered brain structure?
2. “Breaking up with your therapist” and therapist issues or relationships
3. Truth vs illusion
4. Relationships

Talk about any of our past topics, or anything else:

1. Long term effects of trauma
2. How do u feel about snow?
3. Is it an alter or my own feelings? How do I know the difference?
4. Grief and mourning
5. What are appropriate relationship expectations?
6. Responding to other peoples’ reactions to me/us

Comment on any of the following meeting topics from November’s meeting, or anything else you want to!

1. Accepting uncontrolled shifting
2. Internal abusers
3. Relationships
4. “Just get over it.” Dealing with comments like that, feeling misunderstood and feeling like we are too much for others to deal with.
5. Shame
6. US of Tara TV show
7. Upcoming holidays

Comment on any of the following topics, or anything else you want to!

1) Relationships: how do know how much to expect from others? What’s realistic and healthy and what’s too much? And what’s expecting too little?

2) Getting rid of lifelong triggers

3) Fear of being wrong

4) What does therapy mean once healing is finished?

5) Hopefulness

6) What does being healed mean?

7) How do we accept for ourselves that we are multiple or dissociative?

8.) Is being multiple the worst thing a person can be?

9) Taking responsibility for what other parts have done.

August meeting topics to keep talking about. Comment on any you like, or something else all together!

1) Integration: how does it work and feelings about it
2) Anxiety
3) Flashbacks
4) Therapist vacations
5) Acknowledging progress
6) Resilience
7) Healing in a spiral – how it’s circular instead of linear
8.) Dealing with loss