“I don't suffer from dissociative identity disorder but my other personalities do.” — Jaime Johnesee 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 always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you… — Roseanne Barr 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
“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
“Dissociative Identity Disorder is the most extreme form of PTSD and is the result of the child's desperate attempt to survive and… — Lynette S. Danylchuk 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
“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
“ 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
“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
“People with dissociative disorders are like actors trapped in a variety of roles. They have difficulty integrating their memories, their sense of… — David Speigel Copy Share Image
“I want everyone that has been abused by someone in their childhood to know that you can get past it. Having DID… — Dauna Cole Copy Share Image
“I was not descending in a plane, coming Home. I was watching an alien world as it ascended towards me - and… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
“You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person. There… — Jake Wood 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
“When a client enters therapy with a prior diagnosis, it might be difficult for the therapist to think outside of the box… — Deborah Bray Haddock 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory.… — Dori Laub 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow… — Alice Jamieson 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
“Once I had found the courage to tell Rebecca about the children in my head, it wasn't so hard in the coming… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“clinical literature is virtually unanimous that full MPD [Multiple Personality Disorder] cannot be created iatrogenically. There is no evidence that such a… — Richard P. Kluft 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
“I am truly crazy, I told myself. It's over. I am not fixable. I cannot tell Tom. I cannot even tell Francisco.… — 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
“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
“Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence. * In fact,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“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
![“Dissociation can be interpreted as an “emergency defense,” or a “shut off mechanism.”[6] According to Allen and Smith,[6] it is understood as an attempt by the individual to “prevent overwhelming flooding of consciousness at the time of trauma.” It is argued that the individual subconsciously…” quote by Julie P. Gentile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/julie-p-gentile-110085_abuse-survivors_dissociation-can-be-interpreted-as-an-em_2343620.jpg)
![“clinical literature is virtually unanimous that full MPD [Multiple Personality Disorder] cannot be created iatrogenically. There is no evidence that such a case has been demonstrated; clinicians of widely different orientations have studied the available information and arrived at similar…” quote by Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41f/richard-p-kluft-44450_books_clinical-literature-is-virtually-unanimo_296516.jpg)
![“[...] I began allowing my feelings to disturb me. This was scary, because I had always assumed my feelings were so big and powerful that they would stay forever and eventually kill me. But my hard feelings did not stay forever, and they did not kill me. Instead they came andwent, and afterward I…” quote by Glennon Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/623/glennon-doyle-29247_dissociative_i-began-allowing-my-feelings-to-disturb_961859.jpg)
