Chronic Abuse Quotes

“In chronic abuse, incidents are just fragments: they rarely give precise shape to the whole. It's the atmosphere victims live in that keeps them in a state of high alert. Over time this climate of constant abuse and threat can end up shredding the nervous system.”
― Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

“Whilst DID can be diagnosed with the presence of only two or more distinct parts/'self-states", survivors of chronic and complex abuse, or of organized or ritualized abuse may have many, many more parts. This is called "polyfragmentation" - quite literally "many fragments".”
― Lindsay Schofield, Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder