Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD. — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
There's something called toxic stress, which is repeated exposure to trauma. I was fascinated by how it affects the brain and the… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging. — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision,… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta) Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Trauma is the great masquerader and participant in many maladies and “dis-eases” that afflict sufferers. It can perhaps be conjectured that unresolved… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people's… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
“Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest… — Rebecca Rosenblum Copy Share Image
“Do normal people do this...? Do they get happy and sad at different times? I could be ok one day and then… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more… — Anonymous 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
“Being in a state of denial is a universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as… — Sarah E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Dr. Peter Levine, who has worked with trauma survivors for twenty-five years, says the single most important factor he has learned in… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“Type II trauma also often occurs within a closed context - such as a family, a religious group, a workplace, a chain… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Trauma is what happens to you, to your mind and perhaps to your soul, when you can neither fight nor flee.” — Zachary Anderegg Copy Share Image
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
I think at people's core, everybody's just looking to be healed inside because we all coming with childhood trauma, especially people of… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
“The wellness remembers the deep living of the wound, & so is happier than any easy health.” — Taisia Kitaiskaia Copy Share Image
“Your whole picture of the world broke," he said, "and you felt like you had gone mad." "Yes." "And I didn't even… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“...after twenty-five years of treating trauma survivors, I have learned that getting hit is actually one of the more bearable ways a… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“And I guess at the end of the day, you’re just amazed that I can still stand, and I’m just amazed that… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“The strategy of fear is to convince us that we are underestimating it so that we will fall prey to the paralysis… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“About 98% of the women I coach are sensually shutdown. It’s not that they don’t want to experience extraordinary love, they can’t… — Lebo Grand 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
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
