“To treat my first multiple, as to raise my first child, I had to commit myself deeply to the experience in order… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
As someone with multiple personality disorder, it is hard to explain who you are to someone when you are so many. — Carole Hanrahan 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
“Patrice had long since buried the particulars of events so painful that they caused her to resolve only to see good. With… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“as my understanding of and competence in treating the disorder have grown, multiple personality has come to seem, though still horrendous, less… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
I was denied parole because I hadn't received treatment for my multiple personality disorder but the doctors in prison didn't believe in… — Carole Hanrahan 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
“It was soon after that I, overwhelmed with the implications of that memory, overdosed - well, somebody did but as it was… — Carolyn Bramhall 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
“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
“Scientists, doctors, and trained ordinary citizens use drugs and torture to render children machines that do others' bidding. The commands these perpetrators… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all… — Deborah Bray Haddock 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
“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
“The story of Sybil is true, not fictional or fraudulent. One early commentator actually suggested that Sybil and Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, her… — Philip M. Coons 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
“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
“Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“it felt increasingly, as I became more whole, that I had made it all up, and that I was a phoney. I… — Carolyn Bramhall 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
“Over centuries, organised perpetrator groups have observed and studied the way in which extreme childhood traumas, such as accidents, bereavement, war, natural… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller 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 "apparently normal personality" - the alter you view as "the client" You should not assume that the adult who function in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Throughout our times with Christopher [therapist] we were encouraged to work together at communicating on the inside. He pointed out that it… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
“Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West was born in New York City on October 6, 1924. He died of cancer on January 2,… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and… — Cameron West 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
“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Cheryl was aided in her search by the Internet. Each time she remembered a name that seemed to be important in her… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments'. which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson 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
“Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have… — Flora Rheta Schreiber 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
![“Throughout our times with Christopher [therapist] we were encouraged to work together at communicating on the inside. He pointed out that it would be good for us all to listen-in when an alter was telling his/her story - that it's now safe, no harm will come to us from telling or from knowing…” quote by Carolyn Bramhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27c/carolyn-bramhall-55093_abuse_throughout-our-times-with-christopher-th_1496172.jpg)
