Author Archives: New Landscape

Telling Others, Gender Issues

September Meeting Topics to comment on!

Confusion vs. Organization
Little parts and when it’s OK for them to come out
How to handle switching in front of people you don’t know that well
Sharing with others that you have DID
Sexuality and gender identity
Attending clubhouses for people with mental illness

Attachment trauma, body dysmorphia

Comment if you wish! May meeting topics:

Attachment trauma
Work
Body dysmorphia (example: confused by the image you or alters see in the mirror) and identity coming and going with alters
Eating issues, over or under eating
Mother’s Day

Being understood, being diagnosed, managing life

Comment on any topic below, from our March 2016 meeting:

Waiting for others to see what I see. Being understood.
Managing huge unexpected life changes.
Anger
Getting an official diagnosis and its impacts

What is switching like, past, pretending

Topics from the May meeting you can comment on:

Competition
Anger
What causes switching for you? Can you explain how it feels as it happens?
When are you healed enough?
Why do I have a tendency to dwell on the past?
Therapist vacations
Is pretending useful or damaging?

Holes in Memory, Vacations, Food, Expressing Myself

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Topics from the April Meeting included:

-Over active minds
-Missing holes/memory
-Vacations
-Friends that know
-Food
-Tattoos/expression
-Saying too much

Jan 2014 – Time, memory, comfort

Topics at the January meeting were as follows. Comments?

Trust
Relationships
Comfort
Disconnect
Time
Memory

November 2013 – Pain, Trust, Dealing with your behavior

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Topics from November’s meeting. Feel free to comment:

What to do with internal silence
Dealing with pain
How do you know when you’re done with therapy or working on things?
Trust
Dealing with your behavior
Feelings about the concept of integration

August 2013

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Shame preventing healing
Being better than my parent(s)
Recognition
When being DID doesn’t seem to be the biggest problem in life
Restlessness, trying to meet all the needs felt inside
Being overwhelmed causing self abuse, meltdowns, anger