‘We do know that people don’t develop dissociative identity disorder for no reason. We do know that certain experiences in early childhood lead to disorganised attachment. And we do know that trauma is behind both of them. What they don’t tell us is exactly what that trauma was, on what day, how it happened, who perpetrated it. But we can be fairly confident that your responses today, your emotions and your behaviours, your symptoms, the way your brain processes information, your shame and self-loathing, your hyperarousal and dissociation, your lack of affect regulation... it’s not random.
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