{"author":"Carolyn Spring","author_id":"Carolyn+Spring","total_quotes":3,"quotes":[{"text":"Recovery is not so much a dream at it is a plan.","author":"Carolyn Spring","tags":["healing","mental-health","mental-illness","recovery"],"id":193332,"author_id":"Carolyn+Spring"},{"text":"And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with and watch films with, the kind you go on holiday with and rescue when her car breaks down on the A1. Shortly after my diagnosis, I told her I had DID. I haven't seen her since. The stench and rankness of a socially unacceptable mental health disorder seems to have driven her away.","author":"Carolyn Spring","tags":["abandonment","denial","dissociation","dissociative-disorder","dissociative-identity-disorder","fake-friends","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","mental-illness-stigma","mentally-ill","prejudice","psychiatric-disorders","rejection","ridicule","shame","social-rejection","socially-unacceptable","society-denial"],"id":372112,"author_id":"Carolyn+Spring"},{"text":"Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.","author":"Carolyn Spring","tags":["dissociated","flashback","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","trauma","traumatized","trigger","triggers"],"id":392235,"author_id":"Carolyn+Spring"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}