“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Healing trauma involves tears. The tears release our pain. The tears are part of our recovery. My friend, please let your tears… — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
“The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me… — James Coyne Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human… — American Psychological Association Copy Share Image
“These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fingers in their hair of murders Multitudinous murders they once witnessed. Wading… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to… — Mia Bloom Copy Share Image
“PTSD: It's the big game. You're wearing the helmet and pads. You make the big play and jump up into the crowd… — Peggy Randall-Martin Copy Share Image
My dad had just come back from Vietnam, and I think he had PTSD that he never treated, in that sort of… — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
“King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Rape victims were the people who evoked the most sadness in Bosch. He knew he wouldn’t be able to last a month… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tonight the thoughts were about how to end things, with a heavy emphasis on the how. The process of suicide isn't exactly… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
“PTSD is curable when one realises how the unconscious mind works and that the symptoms of PTSD are actually the unconscious mind… — Roger Roger Copy Share Image
“By processing information from the environment through the senses, the nervous system continually evaluates risk. I have coined the term neuroception to… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
“The human need to be visible is countered by the need to be invisible to avoid further abuse, and the need for… — Christiane Sanderson Copy Share Image
“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such… — Janet Walker Copy Share Image
“Prison left me with some strange little tics.' She has taken all the door off their hinges in all the apartments she… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“BEFRIENDING THE BODY Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, &… — Shannon N. Baugher Copy Share Image
“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Whether it’s an Iraqi widow mourning her dead loved ones standing helplessly in the rubble of her former home or a dying… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“The drugs were mind-dulling and unacceptable. Like an indecisive college freshman, I audited, without participating in, a few group therapy sessions. They… — Tom Equels Copy Share Image
“I must stop remembering... The more I remember, the greater my agony. These thoughts stuttered in my mind... I must be more… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
I had severe PTSD and anxiety, but it was the '80s, and I didn't have a name for it. I don't think… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
Honestly I've rode the razors edge a lot of times. Finger on the trigger bullet in the chamber muzzle in my mouth.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Dissociative Identity Disorder is the most extreme form of PTSD and is the result of the child's desperate attempt to survive and… — Lynette S. Danylchuk Copy Share Image
When my own son is going through what he goes through, coming back, I can certainly relate with other families, who kind… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I can disprove the idea that people that have PTSD are like these raging balls of fire that are ready to explode.… — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“...a freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it's difficult for people… — Babette Rothschild Copy Share Image
“PTSD is a COMPLETELY SANE AND NATURAL REACTION to an insane circumstance. It is debilitating, it can be considered a disability, but… — Michael Crystel MSW Copy Share Image
You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
“Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they… — John Conrad Copy Share Image
“As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure… — Lee Ann Hoff Copy Share Image
“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
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