“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because… — Bora Chung Copy Share Image
For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment… — Denise Juneau Copy Share Image
As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected.… — Kumari Jayawardena Copy Share Image
“The non-disclosure of emotional pain can be deeply traumatic. It leads to depression. In such situations of vulnerability, one must choose to… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“What moves betrayal into the realm of trauma is fear and terror. If the wound is deep enough, and the terror big… — Patrick J. Carnes Copy Share Image
It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with the pain and trauma, learn to cope on… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
“Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“People with Complex PTSD suffer from more severe and frequent dissociation symptoms, as well as memory and attention problems, than those with… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“The symptomatology of PTSD. In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as… — Babette Rothschild Copy Share Image
“During the worst of it, onlookers who have learned my story often comment to me that, “All the hardships you suffered were… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“I gave up on any hope of redemption long ago. Hell, at this point I’m simply waiting to die. So, leave before… — Cade Mengler Copy Share Image
“Stop pretending to be happy! If the relationship isn’t working let it go, and save you both from tolerating each other. Release… — Keishorne Scott Copy Share Image
If God truly wanted me to stop, all He'd have to do is have one doctor at the Mayo Clinic find something… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
Just because it was multiple ligaments, just because of the trauma of the injury, they compared it to like a car accident.… — Shaun Livingston Copy Share Image
There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia,… — Richard E. Besser Copy Share Image
“Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what exactly it is about this moment that suddenly makes my heart hurt, and the pain I feel is… — Marko Kloos Copy Share Image
As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“In the world of billions of people to love and be loved by, How unfortunate one has to be, to have loved… — Sappho Khizar Copy Share Image
In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Patrick Melrose' is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
“When we cannot connect something we see or hear to something we have seen or heard before, or when the words will… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings,… — Janina Fisher Copy Share Image
“She knew she couldn’t escape unscathed, and the trauma would take her a long time to get past. And she might never… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This… — Ben Stewart Copy Share Image
[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie… — Tony Taccone Copy Share Image