Ptsd Quotes

“Killing is the ultimate refutation of our own humanity.”

— Kevin Sites

“Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.”

— Asa Don Brown

I don't think there is a true cure for PTSD.

— Stephanie Land

“I find that I cannot be in the here and now.”

— Jake Wood

“Trauma can have a masking effect.”

— Asa Don Brown

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

— Michael Connelly

“Don't step off the road --- There might be another one!”

— James M. McGarrity

“I got PTSD from high school.”

— Tom Perrotta

“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.”

— Tiffany Madison

“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)”

— Pierre Janet

“I feel no emotional connection to these outwardly human gestures. I am not there, because I never left Afghanistan.”

— Jake Wood

When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

— Alexander Den Heijer

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

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys - I jump…

— Abby Lee Miller

With the situation I was in when I was shot down, I self-identified as having PTSD.

— MJ Hegar

Service members are more likely to have PTSD, but it's common in the general population as well.

— Brianna Keilar

“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

At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process.…

— Robert Crais

“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

“Waking up there is a numbness, a coldness that you never knew that had existed in you. I guess that's why things…

— Anonymous1234

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

“All her memories have a fragile nature to them. She needed it to be that way to fool herself and everyone else…

— Chloe Gong

“When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored.…

— Lori Goodwin

“When we deployed, in our heads, the towel we left hanging next to the shower to dry, would still be hanging there…

— Adam Fenner

“Callan sucked in a breath. As a sniper, he’d been trained by the Marines to know and recognize moments. Moments when all…

— J. Rose Black

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s…

— Michael G. Kramer

“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They…

— Suzette Boon

“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

“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

“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

“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through…

— Peter A. Levine

“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

“As I feel less overwhelmed, my fear softens and begins to subside. I feel a flicker of hope, then a rolling wave…

— Peter A. Levine

“Attitude Is Everything We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds…

— Sandra Lee Dennis