Kayt Haynes

“By contrast, moderate identity alteration differs from its milder countepart in that the alterations are not always under the person's control. In addition, moderate identity alteration does not always manifest the presence of distinct alter personalities. Someone who experiences moderate identity alteration may present with mood changes and behaviors that they perceive as uncontrollable. Patients with nondissociative psychiatric disorders (e.g., manic depressive illness) may report moderate alterations in behavior/demeanor that they cannot control; for example, one patient diagnosed as manic depressive mentioned being bothered by his inability to "keep his mind from racing" (SCID-D interview, unpublished transcript). However, these alterations do not coalesce around distinct personalities. Similarly, individuals who have borderline personality disorder tend to fluctuate rapidly between radically different behaviors and moods; however, these changes do not involve different names, memories, preferences, distinct ages, or amnesia for past events.”
― Marlene Steinberg, Handbook for the Assessment of Dissociation: A Clinical Guide

“Out there on the edge, the spinning of the Earth had slowed to give us the time we need to start finding each other again.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“The eldest child is the golden one, the middle child invisible, and the youngest child is loud.”
― Stewart Stafford

“To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood