Dissociative Amnesia Quotes

#1. Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood.

Glenn Schiraldi

#2. You may experience waves of disbelief after each memory you retrieve. Whether as a phase or waves, the disbelief is usually accompanied by massive self-hate and guilt. 'How can I even think such a thing? I must really be warped,' you tell yourself.

Renee Fredrickson

#3. It's amazing to me that owning your own computer was considered impossible.

Randy Wigginton

#4. One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. Nothing that I say in my music is a lie.

Shy Glizzy

#6. having DID in itself creates intense shame. A person continually has to deal with not remembering what one has said or done. Thus, the person with DID must be quick with inferences and cover-ups. Unfortunately, this often convinces her, as well as others, that she is a liar.

Elizabeth Howell

#7. Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

Juliet Marillier

#8. The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part of the child's mind. The child does not even remember abuse that happened the preceding night.

Alison Miller

#9. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

Barack Obama

#10. Aye, we all know your fondness for apples, brother.

Phyllis Ann Karr

#11. Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support me. And for young people out there, know that thats usually what the answer is.

Ian Thorpe

#12. Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. When different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be lying. This can appear to be characterological mendacity when it is not.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#14. Does the person report having had the experience of meeting people she does not know but who seem to know her, perhaps by a different name? Often, those with DID are thought by others to be lying because different parts will say different things which the host has no knowledge of.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#15. Thus through the folly of a single hot-headed general, whose offensive spirit was not balanced by judgment, the Empire suffered a blow from which it never recovered-although it had sufficient power of endurance to survive, in a diminished form, for a further four hundred years.

B.H. Liddell Hart