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Christine Ducommun was a happily married partner and mom of two when, after returning to live in the home of her child years, she began to experience panic attacks and night terrors. Says the author, "I looked for therapy, and there I came across, to my great shock and horror, which i have been sexually abused as a result of my father at a very early time. I surely didn't want to believe it. But as my head began to release bizarre flashbacks, my alters started to show themselves. Suddenly I resided a life even I couldn't understand: I was a devoted mom, wife, and cathedral head but also a convicted thief, a promiscuous alcoholic, and a prescription medicine addict. Things got much worse before they got better." Christin was eventually diagnosed with dissociative id disorder (DID), and her story details a fantastic 12-year ordeal of arriving to grips with the reemergence of contending personalities her head had intended to help her experience her early on years. Therapy really helps to expose the personalities, but Christine has much work to do to understand their individual talents and weaknesses and understand how each helped her deal and endure her child years as well as the latent influences they've possessed in her adult life. Totally reawakened and present, the personalities have difficulties for control of Christine's head, and her life tailspins into unimaginable chaos, leaving her to believe she may very well be losing the struggle on her behalf sanity. Christine's only hope to regain her steadiness is to assimilate each one's emotional maturity while jettisoning the others, until at last their chatter in her head could cease. This, used on by her gutsy therapist, demonstrates to be the major have difficulties of her adult life. It requires her over a trip that few with her disorder have the courage or fortitude to travel. A candid look at the effects of sexual abuse, this beautiful book shines a bright light on the fragility of your brain and the toughness of the nature. A tale of courage, healing, identity, and expectation.
