What is it like to live with dissociative identity disorder? How does the brain respond to chronic, extreme trauma? Is recovery possible from such suffering?
In this combined first and second volumes of her collected essays, Carolyn Spring writes candidly from a number of perspectives about her experiences of living with trauma-related dissociation, and her journey of recovery over ten years.
Topics covered include such as shame, denial, child sexual abuse, the complex meanings of 'madness' and the multi-layered subjective experience of a dissociative mind. It is a series of standalone chapters or essays which build on one another to provide not only a unique insight into trauma, attachment and dissociation, but also the long and arduous - but ultimately fulfilling - recovery journey.
REVIEWS
A powerful, insightful read. Carolyn's honest, brave, intelligent and poetically written essays about living with and recovering from DID are a real gift. I read it from cover to cover, and then began all over again.
Superbly helpful. This book is excellent both as a resource for professionals and a helpful aid to accompany those recovering from trauma, from someone who has pieced their life back together. It's been one of the most helpful books for myself as someone recovering with DID to see so much of my confusion mirrored and explained and then reassured with options and working strategies.
Inspires hope. Beautifully and intelligently written, giving hope and optimism for the future for all trauma survivors, and a must read for therapists.
Inspiring. This book was both interesting and inspirational in both content and subject matter. Having heard the author teach, I can vouch for her eloquence as much in writing now as in her spoken word. Her message is one to be spread. Her experiences and journey of self-awareness and acceptance give others hope and therapists a unique insight into trauma work.
Beautiful. Such poignancy and elegantly written, an inspiration to recovery, its journey and what that can look like. Thank you - it's great to feel connected and seen.
Excellent. This is an amazing account and glimpse into the world of someone who suffers with dissociative identity disorder as a result of extreme childhood trauma and the recovery process. Excellently written, poignant, challenging at times. Wonderful insight into the therapeutic process from the client's perspective. I have gained so much from reading this. Highly recommended.
Discover groundbreaking findings on a hidden epidemic -- and why it so often is misdiagnosed.
You peer into the mirror and have trouble recognizing yourself. You feel as if you're going through the motions of life or you're watching a movie of yourself.
These are all symptoms of dissociation -- a debilitating psychological condition involving feelings of disconnection that affects 30 million people in North America and often goes untreated. The Stranger in the Mirror offers unique guidelines for identifying and recovering from dissociative symptoms based on Dr. Marlene Steinberg's breakthrough diagnostic test. Filled with fascinating case histories of people with multiple personalities, this book provides enlightening insights into how all of us respond to trauma and overcome it. Her innovative method of treatment will benefit anyone in search of a healthier sense of self and a heightened capacity for joy.
As a young adult, years after her physical abuse has ended, Maggie Walters (continually struggles with an unpredictable temper and socially difficult behaviour) has to leave yet another job due to her unpredictable temper and socially difficult behavior. After several false starts she finds a therapist who she trusts, just enough, to start talking about the childhood locked away behind the anger and isolation she has learnt to live with.
Eventually she is diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, MPD (now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID).
Gradually, she understands. It was not Maggie who survived her childhood. The instinct to survive created an alternative identity called Annie, who with a myriad of other 'alters', lived through the abuse inflicted on her.
Decades later, with a husband and three much-loved children, Maggie strives to live a normal life despite a past which has left her internal world with a hidden, dark secret. Every day, unseen by those around her, trigger incidents fill her head with voices, the chaotic remnants of her other selves who lived the childhood she couldn't. This is the 'normal' which Maggie has learned to live with.
In SPLIT Maggie tells the story of managing this 'normal', of understanding and accepting her past, and standing proud in the life she has built from the ashes of her broken childhood.
It is a story not only of survival, but of self-acceptance, of the triumph to simply live. You will not read another book like it.
Would you like to know how people are able to trick you into believing them? Have you ever wondered why you end up buying things that you didn't need? Would you like to learn how to be more persuasive? Have you ever wondered what you could accomplish if you knew how to control people using dark psychology? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you...
Control, manipulation, charisma, and persuasion. Most people wouldn't see all of those words as belonging to the same group. In fact, most would see the first two as something terrible and the last two as something good. It's understandable. That's what we've been led to believe. What would you say if I told you that all four of those words use similar mechanisms to be effective and that the only difference is how a person uses them? Look at it this way, a politician who lies all the time can be charismatic. A persuasive store ad is manipulating you to make a purchase. They really are one and the same, and the difference lies within your reason behind using them...
In Dark Psychology for Beginners, you're going to learn the best ways to analyze and read people through persuasion, mind control, and manipulation techniques...
This two-in-one series includes the following 2 books:
1. Dark Psychology for Beginners: How to Analyze Anyone Through Mind Manipulation Techniques and Dark Psychology Tactics
2. Manipulation Techniques: Discover How to Analyze People Through Mind Manipulation, Psychological Techniques and Body Language
In this book you'll learn:
Knowing how to be persuasive or manipulative, and knowing dark psychology doesn't make you a bad person. If your intentions are good, then you likely won't fall into the category of a manipulative or toxic person. This book isn't just about learning how to use dark psychology and be manipulative, though. This book will help you learn how to spot people who are trying to manipulate you. You'll be able to pick up on those NLP techniques and put a stop to them. This is great if you ever come across a person who is looking to negatively control you, such as a psychopath...
Everyone needs to have some skills in persuasion, rapport building, and body language. This book will help you to do just that. Once you understand these methods and techniques, you'll find that you no longer worry about people taking advantage of you. You'll know exactly what to look for and how to shut it down immediately before they take control of your mind. Get this book and start your journey today!
Grab your copy of Dark Psychology for Beginners now!
In a world where the inner child has historically been overlooked, silenced, and disempowered, Dear Little Ones is a letter written to inner children everywhere. Whether you are a survivor of severe trauma experiencing distressing internal states or you have an inner child who could use some encouragement, you'll find this an empowering and uplifting read.
Taking a nurturing and loving tone, this illustrated book explains complex ideas to inner children in language they can understand. Your inner children will discover:
Dear Little Ones has received international attention and praise from trauma survivors, their friends and family, and trauma therapists, making it onto numerous must read lists of internationally recognized and grassroots organizations dedicated to educating the public about trauma and dissociation.
A pertinent and crucially important memoir exposing the existence and practices of organised criminal groups who abuse children.
The Dear Little Ones series is dedicated to empowering the inner child to promote internal unity and improve readers' mental health. The second book in this series is all about family relationships.
Told in the same empowering tone as the original book, Dear Little Ones Book 2 helps inner children navigate dysfunctional family dynamics. This book will be especially helpful to readers who have painful or complex relationships with their parents or caregivers.
In this reassuring illustrated book, inner children will learn:
Dear Little Ones Book 2 takes on a difficult topic and talks about it in language that inner children can understand so they can begin to heal from attachment wounds.
The Dear Little Ones series is dedicated to empowering the inner child to promote internal unity and improve readers' mental health. The second book in this series is all about family relationships.
Told in the same empowering tone as the original book, Dear Little Ones Book 2 helps inner children navigate dysfunctional family dynamics. This book will be especially helpful to readers who have painful or complex relationships with their parents or caregivers.
In this reassuring illustrated book, inner children will learn:
Dear Little Ones Book 2 takes on a difficult topic and talks about it in language that inner children can understand so they can begin to heal from attachment wounds.
Would you like to know how people are able to trick you into believing them? Have you ever wondered why you end up buying things that you didn't need? Would you like to learn how to be more persuasive? Have you ever wondered what you could accomplish if you knew how to control people using dark psychology? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you...
Control, manipulation, charisma, and persuasion. Most people wouldn't see all of those words as belonging to the same group. In fact, most would see the first two as something terrible and the last two as something good. It's understandable. That's what we've been led to believe. What would you say if I told you that all four of those words use similar mechanisms to be effective and that the only difference is how a person uses them? Look at it this way, a politician who lies all the time can be charismatic. A persuasive store ad is manipulating you to make a purchase. They really are one and the same, and the difference lies within your reason behind using them...
In Dark Psychology for Beginners, you're going to learn the best ways to analyze and read people through persuasion, mind control, and manipulation techniques...
This two-in-one series includes the following 2 books:
1. Dark Psychology for Beginners: How to Analyze Anyone Through Mind Manipulation Techniques and Dark Psychology Tactics
2. Manipulation Techniques: Discover How to Analyze People Through Mind Manipulation, Psychological Techniques and Body Language
In this book you'll learn:
Knowing how to be persuasive or manipulative, and knowing dark psychology doesn't make you a bad person. If your intentions are good, then you likely won't fall into the category of a manipulative or toxic person. This book isn't just about learning how to use dark psychology and be manipulative, though. This book will help you learn how to spot people who are trying to manipulate you. You'll be able to pick up on those NLP techniques and put a stop to them. This is great if you ever come across a person who is looking to negatively control you, such as a psychopath...
Everyone needs to have some skills in persuasion, rapport building, and body language. This book will help you to do just that. Once you understand these methods and techniques, you'll find that you no longer worry about people taking advantage of you. You'll know exactly what to look for and how to shut it down immediately before they take control of your mind. Get this book and start your journey today!
Grab your copy of Dark Psychology for Beginners now!
This book does all of those things but helps a person develop an understanding of the narcissist to create a defensive shield. For example...don't take it personally. What? How can you not? But some examples are ...if birds come and eat all of your berries, do you take it personally?. if a dog grabs meat from your plate, is it personal? No...the birds and dogs are acting according to their nature...and so is the narcissist. This is such a valid point and will make healing and recovery that much easier.
With this book, you will find the following:
-Identifying a narcissist and the different types of narcissists that exist, as well as the differences between them
-Identifying a narcissist's abuse and the way that a narcissist chooses to abuse his victims
-How to handle narcissistic abuse at the moment to protect yourself
-How to avoid narcissistic abuse altogether by making yourself undesirable to the narcissist
-How to recover from narcissistic abuse when you have found yourself suffering from it
-The stages of recovery you will go through
How to move on from the narcissist
-And more!
Para su primer d a en el k nder, Olga Trujillo ya hab a sobrevivido a os de abuso y violentas violaciones a manos de su tir nico padre. Durante los siguientes diez a os, ella desarrollar a la capacidad de entumecerse ante el abuso constante dividi ndose en distintas partes mentales. El trastorno de identidad disociativa (TID) hab a comenzado a arraigarse, protegiendo la mente de Olga de las tr gicas realidades de su infancia.
En La suma de mis partes, Olga revela la historia de su vida por primera vez, relatando su heroico recorrido de sobreviviente a intercesora y su admirable recuperaci n del TID. Previamente conocido como trastorno de personalidad m ltiple, el TID es definido por la presencia de dos o m s identidades. En este cautivador relato, Olga lucha por desenterrar recuerdos de su infancia e identidades paralelas, Olga a los cinco a os, Olga a los trece, surgen y exigen ser sanadas. Este valiente e inolvidable testimonio traza el triunfo de la autora a pesar de las condiciones m s devastadoras e inspirar a cualquier persona cuya vida haya sido afectada por el trauma.
Do you find it hard to read people and accurately decode what they are thinking or feeling concerning you? Have you ever been in a situation where there was something about the person you were interacting with that set-off warning bells in your head, but couldn't tell exactly what it was? Do you know that to be successful, you need to develop the ability to understand people beyond what they want you to see? Do you want to discover how to defend yourself from the tricks used by manipulators to deceive you and how to use these same tricks to get what you want from others? If so, then this book is for you
Here's the hard truth; you meet a lot of people every day and not all these people have good intentions for you. Even if you are the sweetest of people on the planet, there will always be that person who is seeking for the smallest opportunity to prey on your psychology and get you to do something you do not want to do. These people will make use of a lot of techniques in a bid to sway you from the path that you are set on, and manipulate you into helping them achieve their aims. It is with this knowledge in mind that this book has been written.
In this book, we take an in-depth look at the psychology of human relationships and communication. Even without your knowledge, every second comes with it the potential ability to help you decipher what the people around you are up to. With this knowledge, you will be able to make informed decisions, shield yourself from the dangerous mental onslaughts of these people who do not have your best interests at heart and arm yourself with the tools you need not only to get people to do your bidding but to also become more successful in life.
Within the pages of this book, you will;
And a whole lot more!
If you are fed up with being unable to shield yourself from the craftiness of people, and you want to discover how you can get what you want whenever you want them, then the knowledge in this book is all you need.
The decision is now up to you. Would you rather take back control of your mind or not? If yes, then get a copy of this book RIGHT AWAY to get started.
Read along as Fran introduces us to Grace, Jake and Billy and how they share the same body through their Disassociative Identity Disorder.
Information gathered and presented as 'symptoms' within this book are true in nature to the peoples from whom the fictional characters are representative of. Symptoms may vary in nature dependant on individuals. Personal experiences may vary from those within these stories. By no means are they to be used as 'diagnostic criteria' or in replacement for professional medical assessments.