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“The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't you be like your cousin Karen?" Jo's internal Karen was the perfect mimic of her cousin, and fulfilled Nancy's demand that the child be neat and organized.”

Rejection Emotional Abuse Dissociative Identity Disorder Multiple Personalities Alter Personalities Dissociative Parts Parental Abuse Alter Personality Introjects

Book:The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“More than one personality was created in the hope of being the daughter Nancy could consistently love. More than one new personality was created in response to Mother's unexpected fury.”

Emotional Abuse Dissociative Identity Disorder Alter Personalities Dissociative Disorder Abusive Parents Abusive Mother Attachment Trauma Impossible Standards Disorganized Attachment

Book:The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“Why didn't I feel that I belonged to my parents? How could I have known that I was not right? I think it has always been part of me. Can a newborn sense her parents' disappointment and feelings of frustration at not being able to change the unchangeable?”

Rejection Emotional Abuse Parent Child Relationship Unwanted Child Parental Rejection

Book:The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“When I was with my mother, I sometimes thought of myself as a trophy-something to be flaunted before friends. When out of public view, I sat on the shelf, ignored and forgotten.”

Emotional Abuse Narcissistic Abuse Emotional Neglect Narcissistic Mothers

Book:The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality