With veterans, we want them to be able to talk about their struggles and sometimes they can't. Sometimes they're dealing with trauma… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape.… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“One of the main problems for anyone working in health care, social work or addiction treatment is the struggle to hold on… — Linde Zingaro Copy Share Image
“DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
If I had all the filmmakers that traumatized me when I was a little kid in this room, all I would say… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
“The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist… — Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman 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
“I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Writing helps us heal in certain way, but it doesn't make the experience of thinking about writing that occasion any less painful.… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
“Rufus didn’t pay any attention to the voice back then. At that time, he attributed the voice to his lack of confidence,… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“imagine your heart is just a ball you learned to dribble up and down the length of your driveway back home. slow… — Brionne Janae Copy Share Image
“Every existence contains its primal trauma, an event dividing life into a before and an after, a trauma so great that even… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, “Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
“All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order,… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
I've heard that's common with trauma - your mind replaces memories with blank spaces. Like a Ctrl-Alt-Delete for anything that hurts too… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
“Grief is times bailiff sent to evict you from your old life. Its black warrant demands of you hard labour. There can… — Kerry Cue Copy Share Image
We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I think we're all monsters deep down, if we're pushed to that extent. Maybe if I felt like he was my father… — Amina Khan Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t some mysterious adverse personality trait that comprises of who I am, it unquestionably had a source - A cradle of… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having… — Lulu Copy Share Image
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
![“We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a…” quote by Adam Beach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c6d/adam-beach-18451_america_we-americans-have-a-historical-trauma-wh_3085995.jpg)
