Posttraumatic Quotes
Posttraumatic Quote of the day
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.
Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.
Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.
The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").
A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.
Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.
Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)