Being in a state of denial is universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as children sometimes carry their denial like precious cargo without apart of destination. It enabled us to survive our childhood experiences, and often we still live in survival mode decades beyond the actual abuse. We protect ourselves to excess because we learned abruptly and painfully that no one else would.

Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder