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    Voices
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    Ebook140 pages54 minutes

    Voices

    By MJ Saemann

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    A poetic journey through living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and chronic physical illness. The author reveals the struggles, joys, and sorrows of living with both disorders, and the hope of recovery from severe childhood trauma.
    MJ Saemann takes you into her history with compassion and pathos. Her accomplishment is to bring what for most readers is a new dilemma, and express the humanity behind the diagnosis of DID.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJun 6, 2021
    ISBN9781098374488
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