“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can do the same with the causes and reality of dissociation and multiplicity.” Mental HealthChild AbuseDissociative Identity DisorderDissociationChild Sexual AbuseAbuse SurvivorsMultiplicitySurvivorsMultiple Personality DisorderIncestMultiple PersonalitiesMental Health StigmaTrauma SurvivorsDissociative DisordersRequire Book:Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices Source: Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
“Trauma tried to tell me that I was not human and that I should be excluded from humanity.” PtsdAbuse SurvivorsInhumanityTrauma SurvivorsPtsd QuotesNo Longer HumanInhumane TreatmentNot Human Author:Carolyn Spring
“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 grown with me through my teens, my twenties, my thirties, an unacknowledged mentor directing my every path, reinforcing a ubiquitous sense of powerlessness and victimhood. I had believed that I was bad, and unloveable, and cowardly, and weak—beliefs that had been unconscious, and had always gone unchallenged. I believed them because they were true, and they were true because I believed them.” HelplessnessNegative ThoughtsAbuse SurvivorsPowerlessnessVictimhoodNegative ThinkingBelief SystemVictim MentalityEffects Of Child AbuseVictim RoleUnhelpful Thoughts Author:Carolyn Spring
“Bemoaning my existence wasn’t changing my existence.” ComplainingPowerlessHelplessnessAbuse SurvivorsPowerlessnessVictim MentalityVictimizedPowerless QuotesVictim RoleFeeling Like A Victim Author:Carolyn Spring