Traumatic Experiences Quotes
Traumatic Experiences Quote of the day
My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.
Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.
My traumatic experience was life changing
They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay
The holes are slowly filling up, and despite itself the brain will work until the job is completed.
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.
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.
Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?
...the heart is a muscle like any other. Tearing it down is the only way to make it stronger.
You’re not the same. You’re not supposed to be the same. You’re supposed to be different. This isn’t something you will ever forget.
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.
Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate from my heart and spread throughout my chest.
It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.
Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)
Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.
Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.