I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I final — Karen Marshall, Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I final — Karen Marshall, Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I final — Karen Marshall, Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I final — Karen Marshall, Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I final — Karen Marshall, Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
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I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

— Karen Marshall, Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
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