Quilted Piecing Together My Dissociated Selves

by Suritaplus

• ISBN13: 9798350908831
• ISBN10: 8350908831
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-09-09
• Publisher: BookBaby

Summary

"Quilted" is the story of Suritaplus, a multi-faceted woman who, at the age of 17, left home for a college 600 miles away. She looked forward to a life unburdened by her father's invasive hands, threatening language, and the weight of his body against hers. It is a story of her healing from the lasting, hidden damage caused by a childhood filled with trauma. "Quilted" chronicles the author's journey from first hearing the words Dissociative Identity Disorder to the discovery, acceptance, and ultimate embrace of her internal system of personality parts. This book explores the question, "who is Suritaplus?" and finds answers in the story revealed through her journals, artwork, and therapist's notes. "Quilted" is a story of anger, denial, grief, courage, hope, compassion, and joy.

Author Biography

Suritaplus is a multi-faceted woman who, at the age of 17, left her unsafe family home for a college 600 miles away to get a degree in education. At age 43, she was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and began the discovery, acceptance, and ultimate embrace of her internal system of personality parts. She has spent most of her life in the classroom as both a student and a teacher. She has continued to embrace the arts, participating in dissociative writer's workshops, taking adult ballet classes, sewing, singing, and has resumed her study of the cello. She lives by the ocean and continues to embrace learning to thrive.