“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.” — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“It's as though I'm sitting in the audience caught up in a well-made film.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“It is hardly surprising that many survivors of ritual abuse develop DID in order to preserve their own sanity.” — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“The entirety of alters (or parts) which co-exist inside one physical body is known as a System .” — A.T.W 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
“Multiple personality usually develops in the presence of severe and repeated trauma, beginning at a very early age, when the personality is… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“I wish I had a magic wand to make things better, but therapy doesn't work that way.” — Lynn I. Wilson 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
“Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.” — Masatoshi Shibayama Copy Share Image
“Jo knew she had to be utterly truthful, even when her version of the truth conflicted with what Lynn wanted to hear.… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“Multiple personality [Dissociative Identity Disorder] should also not be confused with alternations of mood from happy to sad, characteristic of the cyclic… — Ralph Slovenko Copy Share Image
“Multiple Personality Disorder—MPD—is not a game. It's not "acting" to impress anyone. Trust me, survivors do not receive positive attention for being… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings,… — Janina Fisher Copy Share Image
“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative… — Ruth A. Lanius Copy Share Image
“The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't you be like your… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for… — Paul H Blaney 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
“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
“It is now recognised that dissociation is a way of forgetting, for a time. The mind siphons off the bad memories into… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
“As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“Dissociation leaves us disconnected from our memories, our identities and our emotions. It breaks the trauma into digestible components, so that different… — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
“Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have… — Valerie Sinason 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
“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
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — 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
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to make this point in answer to the 'iatrogenic' theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be… — Graeme Galton 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
“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“As an adult, it shatters me that the child parts of my mind froze at those ages, didn't develop, and continued to… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Patients with DID or other dissociative disorders may be misdiagnosed as Schizophrenics on account of their auditory hallucinations, distrust, feelings of depersonalization,… — Etzel Cardena Copy Share Image
“In fact, rather than being "more" than the others, the ANP is generally one that is very limited, with little power in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
![“Multiple personality [Dissociative Identity Disorder] should also not be confused with alternations of mood from happy to sad, characteristic of the cyclic temperament. These are merely emotional swings; personality splits are far more comprehensive.” quote by Ralph Slovenko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a21/ralph-slovenko-271350_alter-personalities_multiple-personality-dissociative-identi_3105895.jpg)
