When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in the face of trauma, but the additional step that occurs in this process, in the case of DID, is the formation of distinct ego states that carry the experience. Deborah Bray Haddock
You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.
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Alysha Speer
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Joseph Conrad
It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.
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Mira Grant
You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.
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Shannon L. Alder
If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.
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The Prolific Penman
More Quotes By Deborah Bray Haddock
As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on .. It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was...
As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to them about the need to let supportive people into their...
DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over...
When a client enters therapy with a prior diagnosis, it might be difficult for the therapist to think outside of the box presented. One reason a dissociative individual might have several different diagnoses, however, is that as different parts present, they may also be presenting...
When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in the face of trauma, but the additional step that occurs in this process, in the case of DID, is the formation...
