"Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart."
- Shannon L. Alder
"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 notio..."
- Maureen Brady
"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 ..."
- Patti Feuereisen
"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 ..."
- Carolyn Spring
"...the greatest wounds, we hide inside ourselves where they never show."
- From Dream Away song from The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
"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%..."
- Paul F. Dell
"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 individ..."
- Felicity De Zulueta