“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn't exist.” — Martha Wells Copy Share Image
“Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.” — Lauren Cagliola Green Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.” — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“Never be in a state of dissociation when it comes to your decisions” — David Sikhosana Copy Share Image
“There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of… — Anirban Bose Copy Share Image
“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up” — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that… — Warwick Middleton Copy Share Image
“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of the human nervous system in certain altered states creates the illusion of dissociation from one’s body (less commonly understood… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Also, look for “floating alters.” These are not deliberately created parts of the system, but alters that were accidentally split off at… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person. There… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
“Shamed and enraged, I sit by the side of the road and cry. Eclipsed by a sense of disgrace, my emotions feel… — Holly A. Smith Copy Share Image
“When the Jo personality first told him of the diagnosis, he called MPD "clinical bullshit." Then, seeing Jo's stricken look, he softened… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“It appears that DDNOS is the intentional goal of these abusers, but DID sometimes results from a failure of programming. In DDNOS,… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I feel something change in me... I feel a flat calm, a detachment, the way I get when something is too much… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Civilized life today demands concentrated, directed conscious functioning, and this entails the risk of a considerable dissociation from the unconscious. The further… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“I am truly crazy, I told myself. It's over. I am not fixable. I cannot tell Tom. I cannot even tell Francisco.… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
“But after all the years, her husband and children have come to accept that, once every few weeks, their usually warmhearted and… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be… — carol broad Copy Share Image
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Several recent studies (Bliss, 1980; Boon & Draijer, 1993a; Coons & Milstein, 1986; Coons, Bowman, & Milstein, 1988; Putnam et al., 1986;… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
“It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“For example, Dell’s (2006b) Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID) is a highly regarded psychometric instrument specifically designed to provide a comprehensive, content-valid… — Paul Frewen Copy Share Image
“I was increasingly both horrified and sceptical about these memories - I had no recall of these things at all, though I… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.” — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
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