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“And you have no idea what surviving has cost me. My bruises might not look like yours but they are there.”

Emotional Empathy Resilience Wounds Psychological Hidden Pain

Book:Yellow Wife

Source: Yellow Wife

“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser.”

Source: Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse

“it was hard not to imbibe the message that the realities of disability have to stay hidden, even when the disability is the subject.”

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Author:Sophie L. Morgan

“More often than not, DID is dissimulated and camouflaged, so it is important to understand that, although its processes and structures may be active and powerful, its manifestations may be subtle.”

Subtle Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociation Mental Health Stigma Faking Hidden Pain Dissimulation Social Denial Faking Normal Faking Well

Author:Richard P. Kluft

“At the time I was being molested, I thought I was the only one. My father controlled everything in our house and he always said that what was happening to me was natural and that I should accommodate him. Even though I have to look back sometimes, I am moving forward. And even though it's painful for me to face my mother's complacency, doing so has helped me understand that it wasn't my fault. If I could have read something at the time about sex abuse, if people had talked openly about, I could have been saved so many years of guilt and shame and secrecy. Each time I talk about my incest, I get rid of some of that shame and guilt. Each person I share with, no matter what their response, takes another piece of the pain away.”

Healing Shame Guilt Secrets Sexual Abuse Secrecy Complacency Child Sexual Abuse Incest Healing Insights Child Rape Healing From Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Family Secrets Parental Abuse Hidden Pain Child Molestation

Book:Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse

Source: Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse

“There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal gangs, which is appalling and must be stopped. But there's the hidden slavery too of children exploited and used within their own families, within organised and ritual abuse.”

Source: Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices

“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to take seriously the unconscious psychological mechanisms that individuals need to use to protect themselves from the unspeakable. Such a denial is, however, no longer ethical, for it is in the human capacity to dissociate that lies part of the secret of both childhood abuse and the horrors of the Nazi genocide, both forms of human violence so often carried out by 'respectable' men and women.”

Source: From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness

“DID may be underdiagnosed. The image derived from classic textbooks of a florid, dramatic disorder with overt switching characterizes about 5% of the DID clinical population. The more typical presentation is of a covert disorder with dissociative symptoms embedded among affective, anxiety, pseudo-psychotic, dyscontrol, and self-destructive symptoms, and others (Loewenstein, 1991). The typical DID patient averages 6 to 12 years in the mental health system, receiving an average of 3 to 4 prior diagnoses. DID is often found in cases that were labeled as "treatment failures" because the patient did not respond to typical treatments for mood, anxiety, psychotic, somatoform, substance abuse, and eating disorders, among others. Rapid mood shifts (within minutes or hours), impulsivity, self-destructiveness, and/or apparent hallucinations lead to misdiagnosis of cyclic mood disorders (e.g., bipolar disorder) or psychotic disorders (e.g., schizophrenia).”

Source: The Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma

“My own studies on the natural history of DID indicate only 20% of DID patients have an overt DID adaption on a chronic basis, and 14% of them deliberately disguise their manifestations of DID. Only 6% make their DID obvious on an ongoing basis. Eighty percent have windows of diagnosability when stressed or triggered by some significant event, interaction, situation or date. Therefore, 94% of DID patients show only mild or suggestive evidence of their conditions most of the time. Yet DID patients often will acknowledge that their personality systems are actively switching and/or far more active than it would appear on the surface (Loewenstein et al., 1987). R.P. Kluft (2009) A clinician's understanding of dissociation. pp 599-623.”

Mental Health Dissociative Identity Disorder Diagnosis Dissociation Multiple Personality Disorder Hidden Multiple Personalities Mental Disorder Dissociative Disorders Misdiagnosis Hidden Pain

Author:Paul F. Dell

“I make my shroud, but no one knows -- So shimmering fine it is and fair, With stitches set in even rows, I make my shroud, but no one knows. In door-way where the lilac blows, Humming a little wandering air, I make my shroud and no one knows, So shimmering fine it is and fair.”

Death Hidden Pain

Book:Verse

Source: Verse

“There are those who laugh before the world, but they cry in silence.”

Author:Deshawn Yeldell

“Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.”