Personal Stories Library

  • Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder
    As an educator, I’ve become more and more convinced of the huge need for better information and openness about all kinds of ...
  • Freewill’s Story
    My story.... there isn't much to tell... An incest survivor, a survivor of a pedophile of 4 years who happened to be my teacher, physical abuse starting at age 2 — being locked in closets ...
  • My New Life
    At the age of 23, I woke up one weekday morning with the feeling that something was wrong. I searched my mind. Oh, yes. I remembered. I remembered that I was living a new life; ...
  • Bird in the Invisible Cage
    As I watched my 68-year-old father hug my 16-year-old daughter at the airport, my stomach tightened around the bag of worms, renewing that old, buried feeling. My son waited patiently for his grandfather to ...
  • The Real Me
    Everyone who cared had tried to help me for so long, but nothing was working. The elders of my church, although they placed no confidence in psychology, didn’t know what else to do. They offered ...

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