“dissociating put me at higher risk for attacks in my neighborhood and at school, making me more easily identified by sexual predators” — Olga Trujillo Copy Share Image
“Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if… — Olga Trujillo 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
“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
“Multiple Personality Disorder—MPD—is not a game. It's not "acting" to impress anyone. Trust me, survivors do not receive positive attention for being… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
“300.14* Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type* In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity,… — American Psychiatric Association Copy Share Image
“Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Dissociative Identity Disorder is the most extreme form of PTSD and is the result of the child's desperate attempt to survive and… — Lynette S. Danylchuk Copy Share Image
“as my understanding of and competence in treating the disorder have grown, multiple personality has come to seem, though still horrendous, less… — Lynn I. Wilson 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
“Dissociation can be interpreted as an “emergency defense,” or a “shut off mechanism.”[6] According to Allen and Smith,[6] it is understood as… — Julie P. Gentile Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“Jo didn't have more than two or three hours of awareness on any given day. When she wasn't doing work for her… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“People with DID often experience conflicting advice or opinions emanating from their alter personalities. Individual alter personalities may have coherent, consistent identities,… — Marlene Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Extreme versions of DID occasionally develop in response to particularly horrific ongoing trauma (e.g., children exploited through involvement in years of forced… — James A. Chu Copy Share Image
“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other… — Julie P. Gentile Copy Share Image
“However, we have to acknowledge that living with DID presents huge challenges; it is complex and complicated. But our diagnosis was the… — carol broad Copy Share Image
“The major goal of the Cold War mind control programs was to create dissociative symptoms and disorders, including full multiple personality disorder.… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people… — John Morton Copy Share Image
“Dissociation is numbness and nothingness; it is a feeling of being lost; it is floating on a cloud that threatens to suffocate;… — Noel Hunter Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“A problem is that Nathan documents Shirley Mason as suffering from a variety of symptoms of a complex dissociative disorder prior to… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“In 1973 Flora Schreiber wrote SYBIL, a case history of a person with DID. After Schreiber’s death in 1988 there have been… — Patrick Suraci Copy Share Image
“Now that she had the diagnosis to explain her sense of reality, she sorted some of the chaotic jumble of thoughts and… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“We have faced many pitfalls and negatives on our journey so far, but dissociation and dissociating gave us a methodology to cope… — Carol Broad Copy Share Image
“Our future can be brighter. We know that with the right help, continued treatment, and support we can potentially aim for partial… — carol broad Copy Share Image
“More than one personality was created in the hope of being the daughter Nancy could consistently love. More than one new personality… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve… — Carol Broad Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
![“Dissociation can be interpreted as an “emergency defense,” or a “shut off mechanism.”[6] According to Allen and Smith,[6] it is understood as an attempt by the individual to “prevent overwhelming flooding of consciousness at the time of trauma.” It is argued that the individual subconsciously…” quote by Julie P. Gentile](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4d2/julie-p-gentile-110085_abuse-survivors_dissociation-can-be-interpreted-as-an-em_2343620.jpg)
![“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been disbelieved. These therapists had used fallacious "capricious criteria" (KIuft, 1988) to discredit the diagnosis; e.g., that the…” quote by Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0cc/richard-p-kluft-44450_capricious_interestingly-the-patients-who-presented_680376.jpg)
