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“Avoidance comes in many forms, perhaps the most potent of which are intellectualisation and fantasy. With the former, we talk about DID, we read about DID, we research DID, we hypothesise about DID. Anything other than facing the trauma, and working it through. We try to drown out the trauma with a multitude of words. With fantasy, we live in a complex world of ‘alters’ and ‘littles’ and ‘systems’ and ‘hosts’, elaborating what is undeniably real - the polyfragmentation of DID and complex trauma - until our self-representation becomes in itself a form of avoidance.”
- Recovery Is My Best Revenge, by Carolyn Spring.
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Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.
Carolyn Spring
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This excerpt effectively described my 2015 to 2018
"Shame had told me that there was no hope: I was intrinsically defective.
It was not about trauma (which I didn’t understand) or behaviours or choices. It wasn’t even about mental health or emotions or skills. For me at that time, my symptoms and my experiences were only and always a direct result of the badness that was me. I didn’t have any other way of framing it.
I had had a breakdown because I was bad. I couldn’t cope because I was defective. I wanted to kill myself because it was the only way to be free of my ugliness."
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Halston - Spring 1998 RTW
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US Vogue January 1955
Destination Sicily./Destination Sicile.
Fiona Campbell-Walter wears a long-sleeved summer dress, in black and white ABC Everglaze cotton (Norwegian design), by Carolyn Schnurer.
Fiona Campbell-Walter porte une robe d'été à manches longues, en coton noir et blanc ABC Everglaze (design norvégien), par Carolyn Schnurer.
Photo Henry Clarke
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There are no strings on Villaneve. (commissioned illustration by Mekare Madness)
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Carolyn Murphy at Anna Molinari, Spring 1996
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Carolyn Misterek
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"One of my particular pet hates is the use of 'academese', the kind of words and phrases based on Latin and Greek that only 'specialists' can understand. It's no different from Catholic priests in the Middle Ages reading only a Latin version of the Bible so that their congregants couldn't understand it and couldn't challenge their power and hegemony (and abuse)."
- From 'Not Mad, Not Bad - Just Traumatised', in Recovery is my Best Revenge by Carolyn Spring
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"Now this woman sits here looking at me and I don’t know how to be. I know that all of me, here, now and always, is wrong. I am filth. I am broken. I am a dirty, damaged, defective, sub-human. That is who I am.
And I don’t think it: it just is. It just always has been. This is me. I am shame."
Carolyn Spring
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Givenchy - Spring 1997 Couture
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