Dissociative-identity-disorder Quote by Deborah Bray Haddock

“I want everyone that has been abused by someone in their childhood to know that you can get past it. Having DID is not…

— Dauna Cole

“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound sense of…

— Cameron West

“The endless list of do’s and don’ts handed down while growing up, gradually and unconsciously distance us from the inner child.”

— Santosh Joshi

“We have faced many pitfalls and negatives on our journey so far, but dissociation and dissociating gave us a methodology to cope with the…

— Carol Broad

“Some people appear to thrive after trauma. Loss emboldens them, they form great ambitions and stride forward as if nothing, now, could hurt them.…

— Catriona Menzies-Pike

“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if my conscious…

— Olga Trujillo

“I felt we were "falling through the cracks;” society’s anonymous victims who would live and die in unacknowledged misery...”

— Misty Griffin

“Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has…

— Lynette Gould

“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That belief had…

— Carolyn Spring

“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very…

— Bora Chung

“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.”

— Sue Johnson

I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it had been…

— Sylvia Plath