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“The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".”
“I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.”
“Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.”
“Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses ones authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.”
“Anger is the immune system of the soul.”
“This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.”
“We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.”
“The abusers mood changes are especially perplexing. He can be a different person from day to day, or even from hour to hour. At times he is aggressive and intimidating, his tone harsh, insults spew...”
“The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.”
“Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.”
“Because the problem of ritual abuse and mind control has not gone away - the survivors are still there - many more therapists have learnt about it. Survivors have spoken out and written their stori...”
“We raise predators by treating children as prey.”
“The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the...”
“At first you might wonder what you did to deserve such treatment. Nothing, probably, so that doesn't matter. What matters is that, eventually, the abuse becomes the status quo. It's no longer about...”
“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering”
“The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.”
“The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse. These people all enter life under extremely ...”
“What daily life is like for a multiple Imagine that you have periods of lost time. You may find writings or drawings which you must have done, but do not remember producing. Perhaps you find child-...”
“I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP throughout her sessions with him. His view reflects the fundamenta...”
“Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and gives them a sense that they aren't alone, that there is hope, then I ...”
