We have faced many pitfalls and negatives on our journey…

“Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve to be…

— Carol Broad

“Extreme versions of DID occasionally develop in response to particularly horrific ongoing trauma (e.g., children exploited through involvement in years of forced prostitution), with…

— James A. Chu

“However, we have to acknowledge that living with DID presents huge challenges; it is complex and complicated. But our diagnosis was the key to…

— carol broad

“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more careful about…

— Alison Miller

“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other situations and…

— Julie P. Gentile

“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be more obtainable…

— carol broad

“Developmental issues, such as being adopted or experiencing a significant loss or trauma as a child, are also significant. Children often believe that they…

— Daniel G. Amen

“The major goal of the Cold War mind control programs was to create dissociative symptoms and disorders, including full multiple personality disorder. The Manchurian…

— Colin A. Ross

“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…

— Richard P. Kluft

“Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm,…

— Alison Miller

“In 1973 Flora Schreiber wrote SYBIL, a case history of a person with DID. After Schreiber’s death in 1988 there have been several unsuccessful…

— Patrick Suraci

“Now that she had the diagnosis to explain her sense of reality, she sorted some of the chaotic jumble of thoughts and memories. "I'd…

— Joan Frances Casey

“300.14* Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type* In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity, to produce…

— American Psychiatric Association

“The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment…

— Warwick Middleton

“dissociating put me at higher risk for attacks in my neighborhood and at school, making me more easily identified by sexual predators”

— Olga Trujillo