“Being trauma informed must include respecting and honouring the fact that what is learned from the experience of trauma is a kind… — Linde Zingaro 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
“Real- this was real. The horrors- those were nightmares. I was out; I was alive; I was safe.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood… — Diane Langberg 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
We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“A successful suicide doesn't just happen, although, of course, there are exceptions. Someone happens to be walking across a bridge when the… — Michael Anthony 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
“Whether it’s an Iraqi widow mourning her dead loved ones standing helplessly in the rubble of her former home or a dying… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they… — John Conrad 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
“Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human… — American Psychological Association Copy Share Image
“Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.” — M.B. Dallocchio 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
“...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
“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
“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
“Róża laughed until she broke off choking. 'Oh, so now that I've got a decent coat I'm supposed to stay in the… — Elizabeth Wein 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
“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
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon 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
“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
“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 blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
