[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie… — Tony Taccone Copy Share Image
Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This… — Ben Stewart Copy Share Image
Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“She knew she couldn’t escape unscathed, and the trauma would take her a long time to get past. And she might never… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings,… — Janina Fisher Copy Share Image
“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
Education will lead to understanding; understanding will lead to action. Education and understanding are going to be key to moving us forward.… — Perry Bellegarde 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
“But it was impossible to share my feelings of grief with Peggy, because most of the time it was impossible to feel… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Cheryl was aided in her search by the Internet. Each time she remembered a name that seemed to be important in her… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“When we cannot connect something we see or hear to something we have seen or heard before, or when the words will… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“In the world of billions of people to love and be loved by, How unfortunate one has to be, to have loved… — Sappho Khizar Copy Share Image
Patrick Melrose' is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge… — James Wolfensohn 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
PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“I shoot the man who told me my womanism is of the devil As if he knew the demons that trouble me… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
“Healing from toxic relationship trauma is like realizing you spent your entire life eating and having allergic reactions to rotten tomatoes when… — Pamela Storch Copy Share Image
I didn't know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back… — Richard Cabral 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
There are a variety of different ways in which we experience trauma as human beings without seeing it. I guess because cinema's… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
It's the feeling right from the beginning that the government is not on your side, the government thinks you're going to use… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
“LEAVE ME FOR HER! OH I WAS SO FREAKING CRAZY, WASN'T I? FOR ACCURATELY GUESSING WHAT THE HELL WAS GOIUNG ON THE… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I think that everyone who is going to really move up has got to go through some trauma...I'm much more respected in… — Doug Morris Copy Share Image
When a young person is not eating three meals a day but still getting perfect grades at school, or when a young… — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don't go well for… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I ran for office because I believe personally that the cycle of poverty is systemic, is rooted in racial injustice, and is… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
[Christian from the Fifty Shades Darker] is definitely a good person. I mean, he's flawed like all of us, you know? And… — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image