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
“I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.” — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
The city is on fire. It's all taking place in the middle of my mind. — Michael Romano Copy Share Image
“Our past offers us two choices ... live IN it or live FROM it.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
“It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said. Safer? He didn't realize. I was already dead.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system. — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
“Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing,"… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“I think I broke Kerri,” she said. “Go fix her,” Al commanded, unfazed. “We’ve got enough broken parts.” — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority… — Stana Katic 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
“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
“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
“Medical research conducted during the Iraq War has confirmed that immediate administration of morphine following a traumatic event can prevent post-traumatic stress… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“It was dizzying trying to keep up with his moods, which rapidly swung from one extreme of a pendulum to the other… — Karie Fugett Copy Share Image
There isn't a right or wrong way to be depressed, anxious, or struggle with PTSD. Mental health challenges manifest differently for different… — Jessica Barden 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
“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
But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When… — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“Throughout the years I learned the good times must come to an end, all the bad times will get worse, and most… — John Kennebrew Copy Share Image
“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Their manipulation is psychological and emotionally devastating – and very dangerous, especially considering the brain circuitry for emotional and physical pain are… — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
“I no longer seek those things that help me to heal but for those things that fortify me with the strength required… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof 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
“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
“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 prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, &… — Shannon N. Baugher 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
“The Bad-Moon Girls appear on days when Dad doesn't know what he is thinking, or even if he is thinking. Those days… — Joanna Campbell Copy Share Image
“So, what role does memory play in the understanding and treatment of trauma? There is a form of implicit memory that is… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image