Betrayal Trauma

Treachery on a personal scale

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Betrayal trauma describes what happens when someone, your parents, an institution, or a lover acts treacherously towards us.

Betrayal is an excellent word to describe how most survivors feel when they discover they have dissociative identity disorder (DID), especially when they learn the cause. Betrayal trauma describes the treachery our caregivers showed us…