“It's as though I'm sitting in the audience caught up in a well-made film.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.” — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“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
If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy… — Suzette Boon 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
“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
“the reality of being here eludes me, I can’t focus, I am dazed. And I want to stay this way. If I… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to… — Warwick Middleton Copy Share Image
“Each alter personality had a common goal and raison d'etre, namely my survival. They didn't all realize that though, and so were… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
“Patrice had long since buried the particulars of events so painful that they caused her to resolve only to see good. With… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“Following van der Hart, Nijenhuis, and Steele’s (2006) structural theory of dissociation, a model that considers the spectrum of dissociative disorders in… — Paul Frewen 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
“Jenny couldn't believe herself a multiple. She was a mother, a nurse, not that screwball who appeared on the screen like some… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that… — Jessica Stern 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
“PART 2 I felt doomed to death, But in a flash, Before I could reduce my thoughts To an emotion, I felt… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“it felt increasingly, as I became more whole, that I had made it all up, and that I was a phoney. I… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
“The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally)… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“The word is dissociate. There is no 'a' before the 'ss'. People invariably say dis-a-ssociate, which, if you're suffering Disso-ciative Identity Disorder/Multiple… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The "apparently normal personality" - the alter you view as "the client" You should not assume that the adult who function in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Ritual abuse diagnosis research – excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter, E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between Schizophrenia and… — Randy Noblitt 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
“Never be in a state of dissociation when it comes to your decisions” — David Sikhosana Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.” — Melissa de la Cruz 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
“I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn't exist.” — Martha Wells Copy Share Image
