“...to discount the loud and clear "no" of a group of young people with everything to lose is to misunderstand both youth and resistance.”
Source: Flowers in the Gutter
“Incestuous abuse is not necessarily related to the most severe, polyfragmented forms of MPD; however, ritual abuse, with or without incest, is the most common underlying cause of polyfragmentation for MPD [DID] or dissociative disorders NOS.”
Source: Incest-Related Syndromes of Adult Psychopathology
“The more severe and prolonged the trauma, the more severe the fragmentation.”
Source: Incest-Related Syndromes of Adult Psychopathology
“Extreme versions of DID occasionally develop in response to particularly horrific ongoing trauma (e.g., children exploited through involvement in years of forced prostitution), with so-called poly-frgamentation, encompassing dozens or even hundreds of personality states. In general, the complexity of dissociative symptoms appears to be consistent with the severity of early traumatiation. That is, less severe abuse will result in fewer dissociative symptoms, and more severe abuse will result in more complex dissociative disorders.”
Source: Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
“In principle, the number of parts of the personality in a given individual has little bearing on whether dissociation is at the secondary or tertiary level. A patient with secondary structural dissociation may have many EPs, while a patient with tertiary structural dissociation may only have two ANPs and two EPs. However, in general, more divisions relate to less mental efficiency and more likelihood that a traumatized individual will have tertiary structural dissociation.”
Source: The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
“Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder
A form of DID that often involves over one hundred DID personality states and is likely to be the result of cult abuse or some other form of extreme sadistic abuse that extends over a long period and often involves multiple perpetrators.”
Source: The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook
“Psychologically sophisticated abusers who have mastered the methods of mind control know how to induce psychobiological state changes, how to elaborate and encapsulate them, how to provide the cues to trigger them, how to tap into and alter the victim's motivational and belief systems, and how to layer amnesias within a personality. In this way a polyfragmented dissociative individual can appear to lead the life of a normal hardworking citizen, yet can function undetected (by himself or by others) as a mind-controlled operative and remain available for service to individual perpetrators or groups.”
Source: The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration for Complex Trauma Survivors
“How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? “What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“Whilst DID can be diagnosed with the presence of only two or more distinct parts/'self-states", survivors of chronic and complex abuse, or of organized or ritualized abuse may have many, many more parts. This is called "polyfragmentation" - quite literally "many fragments".”
Source: Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“One clue that you might have a case of engineered rather than organic DID on your hands could be the intense feelings of being deskilled and inadequate that arise in you as you are treating one of these clients. They puzzle and confuse even the most experienced of therapists until their multiplicity is recognized as engineered.
Another sign might be the sudden appearance of self-harm, compulsions, or 'crazy' behavior after patient disclosures. These people have trip wires layered into their programming that are set to 'go off' whenever a therapist gets too close to a hidden truth or when the client remembers something new. These booby trap programs can look like:
• sudden suicidal impulses out of nowhere, especially ones that are 'supposed to look like an accident'. as one client told me
• scrambled words or word salad in a client that has no history of schizophrenia
• an abrupt nonnegotiable firing of the therapist when the client is making progress
• pseudoseizures—episodes that look like grand mal seizures or dropping into a semi-conscious state with no EEC evidence of seizure activity
• feelings of being electrically 'shocked' at different places on the body
• recurrent and constant migraines
• an unexplained compulsion to return to a previously abusive environment that they have successfully left, such as an abusive family of origin or spouse, especially at certain times of the year such as Halloween.”
Source: Wisdom, Attachment and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence Based Practice