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 have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.

~ Patti Feuereisen

Patti Feuereisen Child Sexual Abuse Coping Mechanism Coping Strategies Depersonalization Dissociation Fantasy Numb Numbing Emotions Sexual Abuse

... 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 shared belief-systems. It is derived from primitive identification instead of mature social integration; it entails the partial surrender of personal responsibility and produces the quasi-hypnotic phenomena of group-psychology.

~ Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler Belief Systems Depersonalization Disease Evil Violence

when evoking personal recollections, patients with depersonalization often complain that memories feel as if they really didn't happen to them

~ Mauricio Sierra

Mauricio Sierra Depersonalization Depersonalized Detatched Dissociated Memories Dissociation Dissociative Disorder Memories

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

Charles Linden Agoraphobia Anxiety Charles Linden Depersonalization Derealization Ocd Panic Attacks Ptsd Pure O The Linden Method

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; you ‘go away.’ You are disconnected from the act, the perpetrator & yourself…Viewing the scene from up above or some other out-of-body perspective is common among sexual abuse survivors.

~ Renee Fredrickson

Renee Fredrickson Abuse Abuse Survivors Child Rape Child Sexual Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Depersonalization Disconnected Dissociated Dissociation Incest Numb Numbness Out Of Body Out Of Body Experience Rape Sexual Abuse

Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.

~ Marlene Steinberg

Marlene Steinberg Abuse Survivors Ddnos Depersonalization Depersonalization Disorder Derealization Dissociation Dissociative Amnesia Dissociative Disorder Dissociative Disorders Dissociative Fugue Dissociative Identity Disorder Mental Disorder Mental Illness Mpd Prognosis Psychotherapy Therapy Traumatized

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 whole scene does not fit into the 'real world.' It is simple to forget, easy to believe nothing happened.

~ Renee Fredrickson

Renee Fredrickson Abuse Survivors Child Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Depersonalization Dissociated Dissociation Dissociative Amnesia Hypnotic Trance Mental Health Mental Illness Numb Numbness Numbness Quote Perception Of Reality Perceptions Repressed Memories Surreal Surreal Quotes Survivors Trance Trance States Trauma Memories Trauma Memory Unreal Unreality

[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 right now and it sure would be nice to feel emotions again sort of thing).

~ Jenny Lawson

Jenny Lawson Depersonalization Mental Illness

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 taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person’s love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term “generosity of spirit” applied to nothing, was a cliche, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire—meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Fear, recrimination, innocence, sympathy, guilt, waste, failure, grief, were things, emotions, that no one really felt anymore. Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in … this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged …

~ Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis Depersonalization Disbelief Inhuman Satire Surface

As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a pair of eyes and ears - an entity without a body, without a face, and without a mouth. I felt as though I was barely a physical being.

~ Carl Sutton

Carl Sutton Body Dehumanizing Depersonalization Entity Isolation Selective Mutism

Much, much later. when I am back home and being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I will be enabled to see what was going on in my mind immediately after 11 August.I am still capable of operating mechanically as a soldier in these following days. But operating mechanically as a soldier is now all I am capable of.Martin says he is worried about me. He says I have the thousand-yard stare'.Of course, I cannot see this stare. But by now we both have more than an idea what it means.So, among all the soldiers here, this is nothing to be ashamed of. But as it really does just go with the territory we find ourselves in. it is just as equally not a badge of h

~ Jake Wood

Jake Wood Acute Stress Reaction Army Army In Afghanistan Army Quote Automaton Casualty Of War Combat Ptsd Crock Of Shit Dead Inside Depersonalised Depersonalization Depersonalized Detached Dissociated State Dissociative Dumb Emotionless Flashback Flashbacks Idolisation Idolized Mechanical Military Military Psychiatry Military Quote Naive Naive Soul No Longer Human Nothingness Numb Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Posttraumatic Posttraumatic Stress Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Ptsd Robotic Soldier Stare Thousand Yard Stare Traumatic Stress Traumatized True Warrior Unemotional Warrior Warrior Qoutes Wounded Warriors