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Living With Dissociative Identity Disorder – One Woman’s Story
A woman we are calling Melanie explains how her Dissociative Identity Disorder - living with 'alternative personalities' - helped her survive repeated sexual abuse. She says it’s like Russian dolls - ‘It looks like one doll but inside that doll are several other dolls and that basically represents me.’
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