The Lie That You Are Defective or Damaged Goods

Don’t Believe It

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Dissociative identity disorder is caused by severe and repetitive trauma in early childhood abuse, including sexual, physical, emotional, and verbal plus neglect or all of the above.

One of the unfortunate consequences of childhood trauma is that children who are traumatized will often internalize the messages given to them by…