“when evoking personal recollections, patients with depersonalization often complain that memories feel as if they really didn't happen to them”
Source: Depersonalization: A New Look at a Neglected Syndrome (Cambridge Medicine
“The greatest impact my alters' behaviour had on me was not in the acts themselves but in the telling. And some of those tales I just was not prepared for. Opening my mind to DID was like opening Pandora's box. The demons that emerge could not be put back again. They were out forever.”
Source: All of Me
“Dr. Summer explained once again that he believed I was remembering real abuse that happened to me when I was growing up, that the thoughts were memories frozen in time by a dissociative process. We were piecing together a clear picture of what had happened to me so we could put my memories in their proper place: the past. He explained that the pain was my body remembering what had happened. He had explained the process many times before, just like this, but I still didn't understand. The words wouldn't connect. I asked, "How can I be a lawyer, be married? How can I be functioning if all this happened to me? I don't understand.”
Source: The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Are any of these anxieties or beliefs about my past real? Maybe I'm just making them up⎯re-creating the past.
I have to smile as I look at what I just wrote. I can tell when my solitary exploration becomes too threatening, or when I'm treading close to a memory too frightening to be remembered. Rather than push through unfamiliar brush, I stomp the well-worn path of "Maybe I'm making all of this up." But retreating there no longer makes sense to me.”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“Agentic AI in security is like a seasoned chess grandmaster, anticipating threats and countering moves before they unfold on the board. It dynamically adapts to new vulnerabilities, proactively fortifying systems against sophisticated cyber attacks.”
Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
“Generative AI dreams up answers. Agentic AI gets the job done.”
Source: Agentic AI for Executives : Practical Strategies for Business Leaders to Implement Autonomous Agents, Future-Proof Your Organization, and Drive Transformative Growth
“With agentic AI poised to handle end-to-end financial transactions in 2026, FP&A teams gain autonomy in forecasting and execution but must anchor deployments in rigorous governance. It's like handing the wheel to a capable autopilot; true control comes from clear rules that prevent the system from veering off course when conditions change.”
Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
“12. Final Thesis
The most valuable software of the next decade will not be the one that stores the most data or automates the most tasks —
but the one that helps humans make the best decisions, consistently, at scale.”
“To build yourself is to add value to your life”
“A narcissist's criticism is their autobiography.”
Source: Are You In An Emotionally Abusive Relationship? (Special Edition for Men): Patterns of narcissistic abuse in the lives of men and boys.