Traumatic Quotes
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Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.
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.
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.
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
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.
...the heart is a muscle like any other. Tearing it down is the only way to make it stronger.
Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
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.
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?
Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.
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.
Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.
The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.
The holes are slowly filling up, and despite itself the brain will work until the job is completed.
Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.
Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.
They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.
When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.
Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
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)
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.
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.
Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
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.
Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.
My traumatic experience was life changing
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").
Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.
There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.
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.
It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.