186 Quotes About Dissociation

Sometimes in the middle of the day she remembers something Jamie has said or done to her, and all the energy leaves her completely, so her body feels like a carcass, something immensely heavy and awful that she has to carry around.

The inside of her body seems to be gravitating further and further downward, toward the floor, toward the center of the earth.

Shame surrounded her like a shroud. She could hardly see through it.

Marianne's bones begin to feel very heavy, a familiar feeling. They are so heavy, a familiar feeling. They are so heavy she can hardly move.

What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the point of pure hysteria; I never liked it. Those who are humiliated in such a way learn to disintegrate – that is, they become once removed from pain. This is the most direct route to psychic ruin.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

When you study the wrongs you have committed before you study the wrongs done to you, you have no choice but to label yourself inherently evil, and be forced to dissociate emotionally to avoid the horrible pain in this lie.

Living in the present moment means accepting your experience, moment by moment, without judgment, which takes both practice and positive intention.

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.p26