When Rabbit Howls

A woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder reveals her harrowing journey from abuse to recovery in this #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography written by her own multiple personalities. Successful, happily married Truddi Chase began therapy hoping to find the reasons behind her extreme anxiety, mood swings, and periodic blackouts. What emerged from her sessions was terrifying: Truddi’s mind and body were inhabited by the Troops—ninety-two individual voices that emerged to shield her from her traumatizing childhood. For years the Troops created a world where she could hide from the pain of the ritualized sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her own stepfather—abuse that began when she was only two years old. It was a past that Truddi didn’t even know existed, until she and her therapist took a journey to where the nightmare began... Written by the Troops themselves, When Rabbit Howls is told by the very alter-egos who stayed with Truddi Chase, watched over her, and protected her. What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hell—and an ultimate, triumphant deliverance for the woman they became.

Control breeds fear. Fear forces submission. Submission becomes Habit. Bound by fear and oppression of "would-be protectors," the Creature of Habit is restricted to a life of sameness and isolation...until his spark of curiosity can be suppressed no longer. Desperate to find answers beyond the Compound walls where he lives, Creature disobeys his protector and embarks on a quest to find "unfettered thought and freedom." Along the way, he grapples with deep-seeded feelings of worthlessness and insignificance, as well as habitually self-destructive behaviors. Forced to look at the painful realities in his life, Creature discovers that the freedom he seeks is not at the end of a physical journey, but at the end of a spiritual one-his own. Guided by the wisdom of those who have gone before, the Creature of Habit must summon great inner strength to face his fears and throw off the lies of his past. Only then can he embrace genuine hope and find true unfettered thought and emotional freedom.

The story of one man's struggle with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) & the 24 personalities that live within him. In this book readers accompany Cameron West on a roller coaster ride as he desperately tries to hang on to his family, his life & the thin red thread of reality that connects him to the world. The book chronicles his hunt for evidence to help him cope with & understand why his alter personalities are using his voice & body to retell & relive childhood sexual abuse.

A woman recounts the devastating abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother as a child, abuse that caused her to suffer multiple personalities and suicidal tendencies, and the painful years of therapy she struggled through as an adult.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Protective Services, a branch of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, dealt with a variety of family ills, including child abuse. Doctor Robert Phillips, Jr. , a therapist, had been asked to help with the program for men who sexually abused their children. #2 There was a woman who had been caller #9, and she had told Mrs. Greenwood something else that she didn’t know. The woman had gone to the town library, wanting to see if others had been victims like her. But the shelves were bare. #3 He interviewed many incest victims, and he knew the reservation they had about talking to him. He was careful to give them the privacy they needed. #4 The woman on the orange floor cushions told him that she had been treated for incest eight years ago, and that her marriage was in danger now because of it. She wanted to get on with her business and personal life.

A woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder reveals her harrowing journey from abuse to recovery in this #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography written by her own multiple personalities. Successful, happily married Truddi Chase began therapy hoping to find the reasons behind her extreme anxiety, mood swings, and periodic blackouts. What emerged from her sessions was terrifying: Truddi’s mind and body were inhabited by the Troops—ninety-two individual voices that emerged to shield her from her traumatizing childhood. For years the Troops created a world where she could hide from the pain of the ritualized sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her own stepfather—abuse that began when she was only two years old. It was a past that Truddi didn’t even know existed, until she and her therapist took a journey to where the nightmare began... Written by the Troops themselves, When Rabbit Howls is told by the very alter-egos who stayed with Truddi Chase, watched over her, and protected her. What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hell—and an ultimate, triumphant deliverance for the woman they became.

"To escape the horror of violent abuse, the two-year-old child "went to sleep" and created the inner world of "the Troops," the 92 voices that shielded her from pain, but that she didn't know existed until adulthood. this is a journey through the fragmented world of the multiple personality-told by the Troop."-Amazon.com.