“A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.” — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
“Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.” — Stephanie S. Covington Copy Share Image
“Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)” — Pierre Janet Copy Share Image
“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character. — Taya Kyle Copy Share Image
“I’ll give you one chance to run, but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear… “It’s best to watch out for… — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Why are many police officers corrupt? For some of them, it is coming from the long-term side effects of their risky and… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The incident plaguing him on this very night, did not have any relation to the jungles, the killing fields, the faces of… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
“The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and… — M.B. Wilmot Copy Share Image
“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue… — Danielle Bernock Copy Share Image
“You've been so used to fighting Wars with a gun in your hand that you forget to put it down. Not every… — Lori Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there… — M.B. Dallocchio 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
“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
“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“The detection of a person as safe or dangerous triggers neurobiologically determined pro-social or defensive behaviors. Even though we may not always… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
“She felt it every night; a familiar pain in her loin, a gasp of air, the numbness and the nauseousness, the rapid… — Anonymous1234 Copy Share Image
“I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’,… — John Cantwell Copy Share Image
“Veterans being sent into unjust wars for corporate profit is a perversion of trust, at best. I found the emotional manipulation of… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“I can’t think again. Not ever again. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“If ever there was a prime-time trigger for PTSD you couldn't do much better than this, but lucky for Norm, the crowd,… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“PTSD is curable when one realises how the unconscious mind works and that the symptoms of PTSD are actually the unconscious mind… — Roger Roger Copy Share Image
“Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear… — Donald Kalsched Copy Share Image
“The Americans gave it a name, PTSD — Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I had heard about it before: it was something that… — Marco Lupis Copy Share Image
“By listening to the “unspoken voice” of my body and allowing it to do what it needed to do; by not stopping… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Maybe PTSD really is triggered by a single incident, a stressor, as it's known in the psychiatric community, and maybe the attack… — Luis Carlos Montalván Copy Share Image
“The door suddenly jerks open. A wide-eyed teenager bursts out. She stares at me in dazed horror. In a strange way, I… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The character of the disillusioned warrior soothed by the simplicity and silence of nature is an archetype of this war-driven, industrialized era.… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Healing trauma involves tears. The tears release our pain. The tears are part of our recovery. My friend, please let your tears… — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
“I’m a stranger behind the same set of eyes that the girl in the photo holds.” — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
“The world has PTSD. It is a veteran with a blown mind, having flashbacks as it begs the Sun for one more… — Carl-John X. Veraja Copy Share Image
“There are a myriad of long term health issues associated with an airplane explosive decompression.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
