New Landscape ~ DID/MPD Support Group http://www.new-landscape.com New York support group for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) / Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:49:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 November 2011 http://www.new-landscape.com/2011/11/november-2011/ http://www.new-landscape.com/2011/11/november-2011/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:40:22 +0000 New Landscape http://www.new-landscape.com/?p=811 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

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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.

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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

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2. Becoming more aware of the affects of abuse in my every day life.
3. How do you know when you’re done with therapy?
4. What am I really trying to accomplish in therapy? What is the purpose of therapy for me?
5. Not recognizing people in different contexts.
6. Relationships

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1) Unrealistic fears
2) EMDR
3) Stability
4) Regression
5) Other peoples’ perceptions
6) Beyond the continuum theory of what it means to be multiple
7) Dealing with old triggers
8.) Getting to the right diagnosis
9) Playing

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