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
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“Yes, she fears the cuffs, the cross and the whip, but she will get past this. Such problems, even with time, do… — Nikki Sex 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
“To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifully… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to find information because Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was called shell shock during W.W.II, and when Vietnam Vets were… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like 'The Hurt Locker,' or when I spend time… — Tammy Duckworth 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
“There are two things a combat deployment offers which all of us strongly desire. The first, being purpose. Every morning we woke… — Adam Fenner Copy Share Image
“A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General George Custer off… — M.B. Dallocchio 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
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
“During the worst of it, onlookers who have learned my story often comment to me that, “All the hardships you suffered were… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such… — Janet Walker 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
“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
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof 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
“The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, &… — Shannon N. Baugher Copy Share Image
“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat… — Peter A. Levine 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
“...in the lower self, love is neediness, “chemistry” or infatuation, possession, strong admiration, or even worship—in short, traditional romantic love. Many people… — Charles L. Whitfield 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
“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
“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 went into Grace’s den and picked up a book I’d bought from Amazon, Man’s Search for Meaning. It had been written… — Scott Pratt Copy Share Image
“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
“The symptomatology of PTSD. In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as… — Babette Rothschild 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
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 power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I… — Michele Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Across the road, at the edge of the yellow beach, an especially large wave rises to the sky, gathering strength and power,… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
“When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more… — Lierre Keith 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
“King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
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