Archive - A Life With Dissociative Amnesia

I am very lucky. I am very unlucky.

And now I'm old.

Oct 13, 2024 •

September 2024

The long long betrayal of incest survivors

Freudian “fantasies” and “false memories”

Sep 22, 2024 •

Two identities. One body. Chaos.

“He hit me. So he owned me”

Sep 8, 2024 •

August 2024

“On the Apparent Invisibility of Incest”

How we see and don’t see betrayal trauma

Aug 25, 2024 •

The mind works in mysterious ways

Reed College (part two)

Aug 18, 2024 •

At the core of depression are memories

Reed College (part one)

Aug 4, 2024 •

July 2024

Education and escape

Protective rationalization and catch-22s

Jul 25, 2024 •

Indications: thirteen to fifteen

The traumatized self and the more-or-less-normal self

Jul 14, 2024 •

“It’s a sin to hate your mother”

Jul 4, 2024 •

June 2024

Sibling abuse, ACE studies, and Stockholm syndrome

Jun 21, 2024 •

“I have a poor memory”

Systematized versus generalized amnesia

Jun 11, 2024 •

Thoughts on healing

“. . . to experience our suffering”

Jun 1, 2024 •

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