Traumatized Quotes
Traumatized 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.
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.
Without dignity, identity is erased.
Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John
Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.
Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.
Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.
People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.
Unspeakable feelings need to find expression in words. However... verbalization of very intense feelings may be a difficult task.
We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive from living a wondrous and full life.
Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.
Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55
Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.
The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me back to the battlefield.- Puncture Wounds (2014)
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.
Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.
Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.
My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say that I am proud of myself, so I find that I cannot 'talk about it'.
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.