“They Served ...reliving memories that will not die giving their all for you and I - friends taken lives shaken...” — Muse Copy Share Image
“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Tears of my own begin to mix in with the raindrops, but I tell myself that the sky cries to show us… — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
“I’m a stranger behind the same set of eyes that the girl in the photo holds.” — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
“The world has PTSD. It is a veteran with a blown mind, having flashbacks as it begs the Sun for one more… — Carl-John X. Veraja Copy Share Image
There isn't a right or wrong way to be depressed, anxious, or struggle with PTSD. Mental health challenges manifest differently for different… — Jessica Barden Copy Share Image
I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about… — Tim Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Warm, aquamarine eyes stared into him—providing a lifeline to shore. And he wondered if she was really the one who needed saving… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
“There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those… — Max Martini Copy Share Image
“Medical research conducted during the Iraq War has confirmed that immediate administration of morphine following a traumatic event can prevent post-traumatic stress… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“It was dizzying trying to keep up with his moods, which rapidly swung from one extreme of a pendulum to the other… — Karie Fugett Copy Share Image
“It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
“Since her time in the necromancer’s clutches, she was still recovering lost memories from the quicksand of her mind. They’d drop like… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
“I no longer seek those things that help me to heal but for those things that fortify me with the strength required… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’,… — John Cantwell Copy Share Image
“Callan sucked in a breath. As a sniper, he’d been trained by the Marines to know and recognize moments. Moments when all… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
“Róża laughed until she broke off choking. 'Oh, so now that I've got a decent coat I'm supposed to stay in the… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Veterans being sent into unjust wars for corporate profit is a perversion of trust, at best. I found the emotional manipulation of… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“I can’t think again. Not ever again. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Narcissists play a public game and a private game which makes it harder to understand. Expressing your concerns suddenly turns you into… — Tracy Malone Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“If ever there was a prime-time trigger for PTSD you couldn't do much better than this, but lucky for Norm, the crowd,… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that… — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and well-being.” — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“There are a myriad of long term health issues associated with an airplane explosive decompression.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?” — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
“What if I lose what little control I have left? I may live in a prison now, but at least I know… — Nicole Deese Copy Share Image
“Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.” — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“There are serious long-term adverse health effects associated with being a police officer.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
