Abuse Survivors Quotes

Abuse Survivors Quote of the day

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.

There are people that damage you for life. The day they walked into your life will forever be a turning point you will use to label and count your years with... Your own BC and AD.

Closeness was the promise of suffering and pain

Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.

One can learn from what is not said.

He doesn’t hurt us anymore.”Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore.

There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.

I'm Used To, Being Used, Not Abused.

Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?

For all those who believed me, and for all those who didn't. It can't be easy hearingthings that you shouldn't.

I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail.

the gravity of wound to fist

Christy isn’t a case, he’s a person.

Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering

The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you.

We all get knock down in life. Encouragement lifted our spirit.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

do not look for healingat the feet of thosewho broke you

She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

It is through that brokenness that we find courage and strength. It is what empowers us to do great things.

Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.

The more we get attached to any relationship, the more we lose the grip on our emotional freedom.

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

After what she's been through, there really should be crime scene tape around her heart.

It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.

It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.

There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.

The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.

Overcoming abuse doesn't just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.

I'm still not sure if I was a victim or not... and if I was, who was my abuser?

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.

It is strange... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

God is the source of life. Life without God is hopeless. But life with God is an endless hope

One Decision Makes All the Difference

Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.

Clouds of confusionrolled into illusionHe veils perversionforcing her coercionHer body he takeswhile she flies awayunbelievable, she's invisible

A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.

The happy family is a myth for many.

Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.

Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55