children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested… — Gail Sheehy 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
The signs of good health are an intellect which is free from inhibition and arrogance, a heart which is full of compassion… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I think the important thing is you're able to function as a parent to your other children, if you're lucky enough to… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I… — John Maus Copy Share Image
“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Attitude Is Everything We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
“Warm, buttery sunlight through the leaves, setting them glowing like rubies and citrines. The damp, earthen scent of rotting things beneath the… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
“A moving target is harder to kill, and I didn't stop running, maneuvering, until I reached home base, where I could breathe… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue,… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to… — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“Postpartum depression makes a woman feel like she is in the grip of something dreaded and dark, and it's scary. . .… — Judy Dippel Copy Share Image
In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism… — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
For too long we have been protecting the ones who have hurt us by minimizing our trauma and deprivation. It's time to… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental… — Deray McKesson Copy Share Image
“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
Focusing only on street homelessness is resource-intensive, and acts after the rough sleeper has already endured significant hardship and trauma. Acting before… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality.… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“The greatest misunderstanding that we confront every day in the mental health arena is thinking all emotional wounds are trauma. The greatest… — Antonieta Contreras Copy Share Image
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of… — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
“After the fog lifts and you awaken to the truth about abuse, the narcissist and flying monkeys will minimize the facts about… — Dana Arcuri, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
![“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his or her daily life. That becomes the job of at least one ANP [apparently normal part of the personality], whom the child creates to be unaware of the abuse and also of the…” quote by Alison Miller](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f94/alison-miller-20257_amnesia_a-child-who-is-being-abused-on-an-ongoin_1146863.jpg)
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