“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)” — Pierre Janet 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
“In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers. — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
“A child's (or an adult's) nervous system may detect danger or a threat to life when the child enters a new environment… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
I am sick, I am sick and tired of fighting, I am sick of the daily struggle, I am sick of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me… — James Coyne Copy Share Image
“Research has also revealed that women who have developed PTSD in relation to early childhood sexual abuse often develop borderline personality disorder.… — John M. Duffey Copy Share Image
“When we deployed, in our heads, the towel we left hanging next to the shower to dry, would still be hanging there… — Adam Fenner 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
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern 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
“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws… — E.T.A. Hoffmann 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
“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma,… — Carolyn Spring 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
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman 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
“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
“She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to… — David L. Calof 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
“A few days later, Tuesday quietly crossed our apartment as I read a book and, after a nudge against my arm, put… — Luis Carlos Montalván 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
