I spent the whole of my childhood having to play the game and say that these things weren’t happening. They were and they hurt. The world should have known then, and the world should know now. But it still doesn’t.
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The work of therapy can bring up strong feelings inside us of wanting to be cared for, wanting to be rescued, and wanting all the trauma and all our ‘parts’ to go away. It can be a very confusing time. As a dissociative survivor, I realised that there are things that I want people to say to me, and then there are things that would be more helpful for them to say to enable me in the long-term to recover.
Read MoreI find myself in a unique situation: I have Dissociative Identity Disorder, and so do my kids. I grew up in a family where child sexual abuse was the norm, and because of my husband this unfortunately played out into my...
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