“Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about… — Tim Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I feel no emotional connection to these outwardly human gestures. I am not there, because I never left Afghanistan.” — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
“All her memories have a fragile nature to them. She needed it to be that way to fool herself and everyone else… — Chloe Gong Copy Share Image
“Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at… — Trish Doller Copy Share Image
“In war, the damage you inflict on the enemy might be immediately apparent. The damage you inflict on yourself in doing so… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Service members are more likely to have PTSD, but it's common in the general population as well. — Brianna Keilar Copy Share Image
I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys - I jump… — Abby Lee Miller Copy Share Image
There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not. — Lara Logan Copy Share Image
“Here, from her ashes you lay. A broken girl so lost in despondency that you know that even if she does find… — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
“IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs.… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“Rape victims were the people who evoked the most sadness in Bosch. He knew he wouldn’t be able to last a month… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom was born in the 70s, but grew up in the 90s, seeing all types of things. Because of her PTSD,… — Giveon Copy Share Image
“Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is… — Lori Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I’m broken. We’re all broken and right now we’re all isolated within that brokenness. The cure for the loneliness is connection—connection with… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that… — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
I'm not a doctor, nor am I a member of the military. What I am is an appreciative, concerned American citizen, who… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
“TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run out of nothings to tell them.… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
“Throughout the journey West, I had a raging fever. In a mere two days, we drove 1,925 miles from Connecticut to Colorado… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Tonight the thoughts were about how to end things, with a heavy emphasis on the how. The process of suicide isn't exactly… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
“Part of the problem was that I couldn't seem to get past the fact that I hadn't tried to escape from Kas.… — Sophie Hayes Copy Share Image
“By processing information from the environment through the senses, the nervous system continually evaluates risk. I have coined the term neuroception to… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to… — Felicity De Zulueta Copy Share Image
“And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive… — Darlene Ouimet Copy Share Image
“We can’t deny our journey. We can’t pretend we’re fine when we’re not. All we can do is own it—own our suffering.” — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.” — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
“To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Real- this was real. The horrors- those were nightmares. I was out; I was alive; I was safe.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“It is this honest connection behveen two human beings that, in the end, makes what we endured together understandable and meaningful.” — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“PTSD: It's the big game. You're wearing the helmet and pads. You make the big play and jump up into the crowd… — Peggy Randall-Martin Copy Share Image
“They Served ...reliving memories that will not die giving their all for you and I - friends taken lives shaken...” — Muse Copy Share Image
Honestly I've rode the razors edge a lot of times. Finger on the trigger bullet in the chamber muzzle in my mouth.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Tears of my own begin to mix in with the raindrops, but I tell myself that the sky cries to show us… — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
“While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure… — Lee Ann Hoff Copy Share Image
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