“... stress hormones are meant to give us the strength and endurance to respond to extraordinary conditions. People who actively do something… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“But trauma is all pervasive. It does not go away. It continues to reassert itself as life unfolds.” — M.D Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“People don’t always stab you with knives. Sometimes it’s the slow slicing of passive envy.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“We can’t deny our journey. We can’t pretend we’re fine when we’re not. All we can do is own it—own our suffering.” — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away. — Mark Epstein 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
“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD. — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
“Secret, smug believers! God never gives you more than you can bear, they like to say, as if the strong should be… — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative… — Ruth A. Lanius 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
“I danced in the flames and pranced on the shames of those whose names I could not reveal. I have been told,… — The Raveness Copy Share Image
