128 books
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24 voters
Multiple Personalities
143 books
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21 voters
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Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambiguous stimuli and situations as threatening (Eyesenck, 1992), leading to more fear-driven decisions. In people with a dissociative disorder, certain parts are compelled to focus on the perception of danger. Living in trauma-time, these dissociative parts immediately perceive the present as being "
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― Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
― Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
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Memories are, by their nature, false, in as much as they construct pictures and narratives of the person who once was, with those cells which once were, but are no more. Those cells have mutated and turned into something else. Everything that is always has been and always will be. The dust in the light shaft beaming through the windows carries the dead cells off dinosaurs and the ashes of grandpa.
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― Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
― Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
