Trauma Quotes

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Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

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.

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.