“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.” — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers]. — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
“It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said. Safer? He didn't realize. I was already dead.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“I think I broke Kerri,” she said. “Go fix her,” Al commanded, unfazed. “We’ve got enough broken parts.” — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system. — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of… — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
“Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress… — Charles Linden Copy Share Image
“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“PTSD: It's the big game. You're wearing a helmet and pads. You make the big play and turn to the crowd, but… — Peggy Randall-Martin Copy Share Image
“I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing,"… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
These are things that we hear from military families everywhere we go. But it - on PTSD, the thing that I want… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A lot of times people think veterans or people with PTSD can't function, like we're these ticking time bombs and you can't… — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“There, alone in the sterile room, sitting on a pink vinyl chair that boasts many cracks in its once nice upholster, you… — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
“Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to… — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse: Almost all people who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“The second factor helping to bring the dissociative disorders back into the mainstream was the Vietnam War. For sociological reasons originating outside… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
“By listening to the “unspoken voice” of my body and allowing it to do what it needed to do; by not stopping… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“A siege is always a hospital - a hospital where mad thoughts abound and where mad things are done; where, under the… — Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox Copy Share Image
You know being and ex serviceman and a Disabled Gulf War Veteran. You could play Taps on a Jews Harp and I'd… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“I was in the 110th MP,” Reacher said. “I’m not scared of PTSD. PTSD is scared of me.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
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