At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides Children Disassociation Family

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

~ Peter Heller

Peter Heller Alienation Disassociation Duality Grief Loss Self

The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self and our True Self. We might say that it even watches us when we watch. It is our Consciousness, it is the core experience of our Child Within. It thus cannot be watched—at least by anything or any being that we know of on this earth. It transcends our five senses, our co-dependent self and all other lower, though necessary parts, of us. Adult children may confuse their observer self with a kind of defense they may have used to avoid their Real Self and all of its feelings. One might call this defense “false observer self” since its awareness is clouded. It is unfocused as it “spaces” or “numbs out.” It denies and distorts our Child Within, and is often judgmental.

~ Charles L. Whitfield

Charles L. Whitfield Child Development Disassociation Dissociation Healing Ptsd Self Help Therapy Trauma

It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness seems irrelevant, like a rumor, something I'm supposed to care about but don't.

~ Lauren Miller

Lauren Miller Coping Mechanism Detachment Disassociation Trauma Traumatization Traumatized

Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.

~ Alan Heathcock

Alan Heathcock Disassociation Escape Running Away Unhappiness