Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of… — Sierra D. Waters 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
“As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman 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
“BEFRIENDING THE BODY Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn't bear to take another dip… — M.B. Dallocchio 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
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I wish bad brain stuff was an actual guy I could punch in the face. PTSD, panic attacks, anxiety, flashbacks, hallucinations, anything… — RoAnna Sylver Copy Share Image
“There are two types of memory frequently experienced by individuals who have had overwhelming trauma that has been suppressed psychologically or chemically.… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
I had experience with PTSD myself; probably that's why I felt so close to the soldiers and the testimony. Also, because I… — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Because of dissociation, many victims are able to remember the abuse only when a certain object, smell, color, scene, or experience triggers… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic… — Jan Karon 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
“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
“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
