"Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't hav..."
- Patti Feuereisen
"... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from self-transcending devotion to collectively share..."
- Arthur Koestler
"when evoking personal recollections, patients with depersonalization often complain that memories feel as if they really didn't happen to them"
- Mauricio Sierra
"We can think of dissociation as psychological disconnection from one or more of three major spheres of experience: (a) the here and now, i.e., orientation to time and place; (b) other people, i.e., in..."
- Steven N. Gold
"Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told."
- Charles Linden
"Dissociation gets you through a brutal experience, letting your basic survival skills operate unimpeded…Your ability to survive is enhanced as the ability to feel is diminished…All feeling are blocked..."
- Renee Fredrickson
"Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good."
- Marlene Steinberg
"Dissociation, a form of hypnotic trance, helps children survive the abuse…The abuse takes on a dream-like, surreal quality and deadened feelings and altered perceptions add to the strangeness. The who..."
"[I have] occasional depersonalization disorder, (which makes me feel utterly detached from reality, but in less of a "this LSD is awesome" kind of way and more of a "I wonder what my face is doing rig..."
- Jenny Lawson
"This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one’s..."
- Bret Easton Ellis