Quotes About Multiple Personality Disorder

#1. I'm self-aware enough to know that I have a somewhat fractured personality. Not exactly multiple personality disorder, but clearly there were different drivers at the wheel depending on my mood, and depending on my needs. Over

Jonathan Maberry

#2. I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

Brittany Snow

#3. Writing is a very sophisticated form of multiple personality disorder.

Daryl Farmer

#4. You must have a theory," Bobby said. "Here it is. The killer has multiple personality disorder." Justine sighed. " And every one of his personalities is psychopathic.

Robert Patterson

#5. I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

Darrell Hammond

#6. The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.

David Mitchell

#7. Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

Stephenie Meyer

#8. My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

Joaquin Phoenix

#9. human beings are not single egos but are instead composed of multiple ego states. multiple personality disorder is only a pathological expression of a general condition

Stephen Harrod Buhner

#10. Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.

Peggy Ullman Bell

#11. I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.

Wilma Rudolph

#12. After centuries of darkness
fish may lose their vision,
and happy in the still pool
will forget that light was once their day.

Barry Pomeroy

#13. Many alters can be "stuck in the past" and still think it is 1968 or 1987 or some other year when they were still physically a child and the abusers were in charge of them.

Alison Miller

#14. Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we made it all up." I have heard this from several different clients. When I hear it, I politely inquire, "And who is we?

Alison Miller

#15. Many ritually abusive cults deliberately divide the personality system down the middle of the head, making sure that there is no communication between the two sides. "Left side" parts might be instructed to speak to no one other than the perpetrators.

Alison Miller

#16. The Gang of Four may have run multiple systems on a single motherboard, but each had its own distinct topology and they only surfaced one at a time.

Peter Watts

#17. DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.

Deborah Bray Haddock

#18. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#19. The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, or in the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan.

Fritjof Capra

#20. This new co-consciousness brought me to a state of awareness in which my core personality was directly able to experience "her" personality. Being co-conscious with her, he explained, would stop me from experiencing the feeling of leaving my body or dissociating.

Suzie Burke

#21. 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

#22. The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.

Jonathan Friesen

#23. Each alter personality had a common goal and raison d'etre, namely my survival. They didn't all realize that though, and so were at odds with each other much of the time. So I continued to be fragmented and divided.

Carolyn Bramhall

#24. Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

Miranda July

#25. Dear little ones, I know this might be scary and confusing right now, but my name is Jade and I'm here to help.

Jade Miller

#26. Thoughts of being obliterated were a moo killer.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#27. In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

Tania Bruguera

#28. It is important to learn about being multiple, and what works for their healing, from your client. To work with the alters, rather than trying to get the ANP to control the rest of the personality system.

Alison Miller

#29. I was 20 myself. Once upon a time.

Haruki Murakami

#30. Is soap cool again, or is body wash still the way to go?

Mindy Kaling

#31. Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.
[question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]

Frank W. Putnam

#32. The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#33. There is no evidence of spontaneous remission or integration of personality alters without mental health treatment. Therapy is long-term and requires the establishment of a strong therapeutic relationship with the individual.

Danny Wedding

#34. Patrice had long since buried the particulars of events so painful that they caused her to resolve only to see good. With such a stance, such as dissociative split, she could walk with evil and believe it did not exist. She was Joe's perfect mate.

Judith Spencer

#35. Another of the difficulties of having DID is the denial. DID is a disorder of denial. It has to be because if the original person knew about the alters and felt their pain, they would either go crazy and be hospitalized permanently, or would die.

Eve N. Adams

#36. Dissociative parts of the personality are not actually separate identities or personalities in one body, but rather parts of a single individual that are not yet functioning together in a smooth, coordinated, flexible way. P14

Suzette Boon