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		<title>Life Lessons 101: You are Never Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=569&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ruck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have followed the healing journey that my girls and I have been on from the beginning, you may know that we are doing things about the exact opposite of what is often espoused for the healing of dissociative identity disorder or what’s a.k.a multiple personality disorder. One of the major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=564&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snippets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ruck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I’ve wanted to write another entry for a while, but all I have are snippets at this moment. So I thought I’d throw out a bunch of snippets for us to remember about dissociative identity disorder or multiple personality disorder from a husband’s perspective. Putting first things first. When Karen and I first started [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=560&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ruck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a current saying that the difference between men and boys is the price of the toys. I’ve never cared for that saying having very few toys in my life right now. But one of the greatest struggles I’ve had as I have tried to guide the little girls’ healing journey is this: how do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=548&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Husband’s Definition of Dissociative Identity Disorder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ruck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my wife first came home 3 ½ years ago from a counseling session and suggested she might have dissociative identity disorder, my mind was blank. I had absolutely no idea what that meant. Then when I found out it used to be called multiple personality disorder, all the whacked out ideas that Hollywood has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=537&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ugly Side of D.I.D.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ruck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of the d.i.d. bloggers I follow and many I visit from time to time share their struggles with suicide. This seems to be a pervasive issue among those who have dissociative identity disorder, more commonly known as multiple personality disorder. But it’s not only suicide. It seems that non-suicidal depression is ubiquitous necessitating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=532&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No, She Can&#8217;t Help It</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ruck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I began the journey with my girls through dissociative identity disorder, more commonly known as multiple personality disorder, I was a confirmed religious and political conservative. To me one of the pillars of those positions is total personal responsibility. We are all responsible for our actions and inactions. Period. Plain and simple. Right? However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=528&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Amy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ruck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to get my girls to &#8220;guest blog&#8221; on this blog or start a new blog with me. I feel this blog on how to help someone heal from dissociative identity disorder or more commonly known as multiple personality disorder lacks the credibility it might have if it wasn&#8217;t only from my perspective. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=525&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Related Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ruck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food fight! I was only involved in one food fight my entire school career, and I had the sense to dive under a table when it started. Food fights might look like fun on TV, but they can be nasty especially when they involve different people in the network of someone suffering from dissociative identity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=519&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holding Out for a Hero?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ruck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonnie Tyler sang a song for the movie Foot Loose that still gets my blood pumping when I hear it. Holding Out for a Hero  Where have all the good men gone And where are all the gods? Where&#8217;s the street-wise Hercules To fight the rising odds? Isn&#8217;t there a white knight upon a fiery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samruck2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12375382&amp;post=505&amp;subd=samruck2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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