“As I feel less overwhelmed, my fear softens and begins to subside. I feel a flicker of hope, then a rolling wave… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead… — Elizabeth F. Howell 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
“I was dizzy in that room. I felt faint with disbelief. I held on to the seat of my chair to stay… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“Beware of becoming too sure of your beliefs, because you run the risk of dissociation, or losing touch with parts of yourself.… — Laurence Galian 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
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and… — Cameron West 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
“Every doctrine of violence and machinery of reaction has relied on his frightening it is to contemplate the crushing of hope. Far… — Gargi Bhattacharyya Copy Share Image
“But then, not long after, in another article, Loftus writes, "We live in a strange and precarious time that resembles at its… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I feel no emotional connection to these outwardly human gestures. I am not there, because I never left Afghanistan.” — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
“Cheryl was aided in her search by the Internet. Each time she remembered a name that seemed to be important in her… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal… — James Fox Copy Share Image
“No, my GP hadn’t ever heard of dissociative disorders and just wanted to prescribe medication, but I could still build a good,… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Just as sometimes I wondered if Grandpa had ever existed, sometimes I wondered if I truly existed myself. As I was running,… — Alice Jamieson 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
“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
“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to… — Felicity De Zulueta Copy Share Image
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“The odd sensation I had while cooking would often last through the meal, then dissolve as I climbed the stairs. I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
