“So, Strand looked at me, and he said, 'You should write about all this someday.' And I said, 'You mean about all… — Mark Leyner 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
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
“genes and fetal environment are relevant. But most important, recall the logic of collapsing different types of trauma into a single category.… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I… — Michele Rosenthal Copy Share Image
The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so… — Cris Carter 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
“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
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz 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
“As a child I had been taken to see Dr Bradshaw on countless occasions; it was in his surgery that Billy had… — Alice Jamieson 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
“The odd sensation I had while cooking would often last through the meal, then dissolve as I climbed the stairs. I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“And so I want us to look at injustice and its polar opposite, justice, which we are told is a requirement of… — Diane Mandt Langberg Copy Share Image
“Outside, the sun shines. Inside, there’s only darkness. The blackness is hard to describe, as it’s more than symptoms. It’s a nothing… — Justin Ordoñez Copy Share Image
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the… — David Jones Copy Share Image
People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native.… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn't necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It's not necessarily… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“I looked out the window at midnight and watched the snow drop slowly to the ground. It was 2004 at last and… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest, Children dying in the road, Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Blackfeet have our own versions of the traumatic history that we collectively still feel. And it's just an ethos in my people… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind… — Lav Diaz 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
One thing I can say as far as people from black communities dealing with trauma or PTSD is putting some trauma centers… — Polo G Copy Share Image
At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I don't know when the boys began to walk away with parts of myself in their sticky hands; when loving became a… — Melissa Stein Copy Share Image
“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative… — Ruth A. Lanius 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
This stereotype that Black and brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma: the cradle to prison… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
For me, 'Candyman' has always been about telling stories and how they are important to keep telling because they will hopefully stop… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
