“During this hour in the waking streets I felt at ease, at peace; my body, which I despised, operated like a machine.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“As Lynn began getting psychologically better, she took me to a variety of sites. She taught me how to read trail markers.… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who… — Marlene Steinberg Copy Share Image
“I honestly didn't believe I could bear any more suffering. I was convinced that the child within me was just too young… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“[...] I began allowing my feelings to disturb me. This was scary, because I had always assumed my feelings were so big… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
“To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha's life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted… — Lynn Hersha 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
“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
“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
“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
“Dissociative symptoms—primarily depersonalization and derealization—are elements in other DSM-IV disorders, including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and in the neurologic syndrome of… — James A. Chu 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse: Almost all people who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“The Kinsey staff asked questions of children, learning about sexuality in the family. And other psychologists, psychiatrists and paediatricians, including Benjamin Spock,… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Trauma-related structural dissociation should be distinguished from more ubiquitous phenomena that are often termed dissociation, but likely have a different underlying process.… — Onno van der Hart Copy Share Image
“There, there, best to bring it all up,' she said. My memory was in shreds. Imagine a photograph cut into narrow strips… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“300.1 Hysterical neurosis This neurosis is characterized by an involuntary psychogenic loss or disorder of function. Symptoms characteristically begin and end suddenly… — American Psychiatric Association Copy Share Image
