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Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor QUOTES

Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor QUOTES

1 " Shame plays a huge part in why you hate who you are. "

― , Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor

2 " When a personality is created out of a trauma situation, the personality can watch and learn by looking and hearing out of your eyes and ears. The personality doesn't have to be the one in charge of the body to know what is going on. If the personality is created while you are of a very young age that personality can remain at that age, even though you are growing and maturing. A personality can also be hidden within the memory that created them and they don't realize time has moved on. "

― , Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor

3 " When you are a child and the personalities are being formed, you don't realize it. You only understand survival. Yes, you are missing parts of events that you don't remember, but good you don't want to remember them anyway. "

― , Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor

4 " Who am I? At this point, I have no clue. "

― , Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor

5 " Shame plays a huge part in why you hate who you are. For me, a girl surrounded by sexual abuse, and being a girl filled with shame, was no fun. It looked like a boy had things much better, and better is what I wanted. I went to sleep dreaming and wishing when I woke up I would be a boy. "

― , Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor

6 " There have been so many personalities formed inside my head that a return to normal and an understanding of who I really am will take years. "

― , Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor

7 " Mind control that uses torture turns the situations around and makes relief of pain, a reward. If a person is hurting you physically in an extreme and painful way, they say to you, "The pain will stop if you do what I tell you," which works to establish the type of disciplined response. "

― , Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor