“This new co-consciousness brought me to a state of awareness in which my core personality was directly able to experience "her" personality.… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“ You’re in shock. You can’t afford to be in shock. Two parts of himself were having a conversation. You were probably… — Jack Grimwood Copy Share Image
“Denial returned, like a nagging cough you can never quite shake. Actually, it was always close at hand, and even though "satanic… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“My body was a Pandora’s box of aches and pains. When Grandpa died all the ailments came jumping out. I was forever… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“That is the problem with repressed memory and dissociative identity disorder. Your mind represses certain traumas for reasons of pure survival. And… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
“Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“I learned that there is a type of pain in life that I want to feel. It's the inevitable, excruiating, necessary pain… — Glennon Doyle 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
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“I get a prompt about using my Dissociative Cognition System. It takes considerable effort to make even that decision, but I manage… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“Why did I allow the abuse to continue? Even as a teenager? I didn’t. Something that had been plaguing me for years… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Because of dissociation, many victims are able to remember the abuse only when a certain object, smell, color, scene, or experience triggers… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“Working simultaneously, though seemingly without a conscience, was Dr. Ewen Cameron, whose base was a laboratory in Canada's McGill University, in Montreal.… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“I believe the perception of what people think about DID is I might be crazy, unstable, and low functioning. After my diagnosis,… — Esmay T. Parker Copy Share Image
“I became skilled at covering my tracks, filling in the blanks. Sometimes the blanks were never filled. At other times, I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“As a child I had been taken to see Dr Bradshaw on countless occasions; it was in his surgery that Billy had… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“000-x02 Dissociative reaction This reaction represents a type of gross personality disorganization, the basis of which is a neurotic disturbance, although the… — American Psychiatric Association Copy Share Image
“Cheryl's growing awareness of her emotional difficulties was leading her to research multiple personality. As she had learned more about dissociation, she… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson 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
