“I don't suffer from dissociative identity disorder but my other personalities do.” — Jaime Johnesee 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“ 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
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
“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
“PART 2 I felt doomed to death, But in a flash, Before I could reduce my thoughts To an emotion, I felt… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“300.14* Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type* In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity,… — American Psychiatric Association Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Complex PTSD consists of of six symptom clusters, which also have been described in terms of dissociation of personality. Of course, people… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Changes in Relationship with others: It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Specific parts of you personality may be angry and are usually easily evoked. because these parts are dissociated, anger remains an emotion… — Suzette Boon 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
“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
“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
“The data on organised abuse has been simplified or distorted in an attempt force it to conform to mechanical psychological models of… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“The word is dissociate. There is no 'a' before the 'ss'. People invariably say dis-a-ssociate, which, if you're suffering Disso-ciative Identity Disorder/Multiple… — 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
“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
“Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta's office. That's what they do when… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we… — Alison Miller 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
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't… — Carolyn Spring 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
“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
