“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
“Many ritually abusive cults deliberately divide the personality system down the middle of the head, making sure that there is no communication… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if… — Olga Trujillo Copy Share Image
“It appears that DDNOS is the intentional goal of these abusers, but DID sometimes results from a failure of programming. In DDNOS,… — Alison Miller 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Now that she had the diagnosis to explain her sense of reality, she sorted some of the chaotic jumble of thoughts and… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Research has also revealed that women who have developed PTSD in relation to early childhood sexual abuse often develop borderline personality disorder.… — John M. Duffey Copy Share Image
“On its own, my internal dissociated part now came to the surface, and I found myself hiding from everyone. I still was… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Jo didn't have more than two or three hours of awareness on any given day. When she wasn't doing work for her… — Joan Frances Casey 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
“Most DID patients are rather muted compared to those cases incorrectly assumed to epitomize the condition (Kluft, 1985b). The personalities enact adaptational… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr Sidney Gottlieb to direct the CIA's MKULTRA… — Orit Badouk Epstein Copy Share Image
“It is clear that the various personalities I am seeing are quite different from one another. The physical changes are startling. I… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The men and women who continue to hold Lynn's mind hostage against her will believe the future will be tilled with terrorism,… — Lynn Hersha 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
“If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal? I… — Alice Jamieson 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
“In 1973 Flora Schreiber wrote SYBIL, a case history of a person with DID. After Schreiber’s death in 1988 there have been… — Patrick Suraci 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
“The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz,… — Paul H Blaney Copy Share Image
“The System Map is like an internal family tree, though it can be drawn out in whatever format, in whatever way is… — A.T.W Copy Share Image
“In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“Joe knew that for some, really for most, the derivations of belladonna that blurred their vision and caused their hearts to race… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“I attempted to be clear and straightforward in my approach to Dr Tate, deferring to his medical expertise and stating my desire… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Professional surveys that establish that the position that DID "does not exist" or that there is "no evidence" for the diagnosis are… — A Steven Frankel 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
“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
“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
“We worked through the “alien abduction” memory and discovered that the “spaceship” was parked in the courtyard of the cult training centre.… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Extreme versions of DID occasionally develop in response to particularly horrific ongoing trauma (e.g., children exploited through involvement in years of forced… — James A. Chu Copy Share Image
“~~You are not alone~~ No, really. Literally. Maybe you have always known (or suspected) this. Maybe this news is shocking, baffling, dismaying,… — A.T.W Copy Share Image
“Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“People with DID often experience conflicting advice or opinions emanating from their alter personalities. Individual alter personalities may have coherent, consistent identities,… — Marlene Steinberg Copy Share Image
![“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been disbelieved. These therapists had used fallacious "capricious criteria" (KIuft, 1988) to discredit the diagnosis; e.g., that the…” quote by Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cc/richard-p-kluft-44450_capricious_interestingly-the-patients-who-presented_680376.jpg)
![“Joe knew that for some, really for most, the derivations of belladonna that blurred their vision and caused their hearts to race would, as well, hasten their forgetting of detail. They would not recall, not readily, any sense of pain or shame or doubt or threat of danger. [] There were always…” quote by Judith Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff8/judith-spencer-55536_abuse_joe-knew-that-for-some-really-for-most-t_2664337.jpg)
![“Professional surveys that establish that the position that DID "does not exist" or that there is "no evidence" for the diagnosis are minority opinions, particularly among those who have any experience with alleged dissociative symptoms [12,13]. The related belief that traumatic memories cannot be…” quote by A Steven Frankel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/840/a-steven-frankel-215528_abuse_professional-surveys-that-establish-that_3198581.jpg)
