“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.” — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.” — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
With the situation I was in when I was shot down, I self-identified as having PTSD. — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. — Alexander Den Heijer Copy Share Image
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.” — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
“The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“PTSD: It's the big game. You're wearing a helmet and pads. You make the big play and jump up into the crowd… — Peggy Randall-Martin Copy Share Image
“Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.” — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
“The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.” — James Garbarino Copy Share Image
Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers]. — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
“There is a shock that comes so quickly and strikes so deep that the blow is internalized even before then skin feels… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of… — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
Most people may not realize the tremendous value that therapy/companion/comfort animals have for the purposes of easing the suffering of those with… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
“Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress… — Charles Linden Copy Share Image
“There, alone in the sterile room, sitting on a pink vinyl chair that boasts many cracks in its once nice upholster, you… — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
“What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
We got a commitment that 3 million nurses are going to be trained to better identify these signs [of PTSD], because, you… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Now I know, you can’t change what’s happened to you or hide it, or spin it, or get over it. All you… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Every painful memory you have which keeps recurring is simply your unconscious mind trying to protect you by reminding you of experiences… — Roger Roger Copy Share Image
“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Cairo. An inter-services game of cricket was in progress in the lush grounds behind him as Powell made his way through the… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“Changes in the Perception of Self: People who have been traumatized in childhood are often troubled by guilt, shame, and negative feelings… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The second factor helping to bring the dissociative disorders back into the mainstream was the Vietnam War. For sociological reasons originating outside… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“To say I woke up one day and reached a point where I no longer cared about the pains to befall me… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse: Almost all people who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“A siege is always a hospital - a hospital where mad thoughts abound and where mad things are done; where, under the… — Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox Copy Share Image
“The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“As I feel less overwhelmed, my fear softens and begins to subside. I feel a flicker of hope, then a rolling wave… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such… — Janet Walker Copy Share Image
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