At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging. — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
“Trauma is what happens to you, to your mind and perhaps to your soul, when you can neither fight nor flee.” — Zachary Anderegg Copy Share Image
“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
I think at people's core, everybody's just looking to be healed inside because we all coming with childhood trauma, especially people of… — Kirk Franklin 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
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people's… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
“Trauma is the great masquerader and participant in many maladies and “dis-eases” that afflict sufferers. It can perhaps be conjectured that unresolved… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Do normal people do this...? Do they get happy and sad at different times? I could be ok one day and then… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I had no lasting physical trauma nor a psychological one. Yet, it was hard to return to the old path. I found… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“Dissociation leaves us disconnected from our memories, our identities and our emotions. It breaks the trauma into digestible components, so that different… — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time.… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“When the traumatic event is the result of an attack by a family member on whom victims depend for economic and other… — Marion F. Solomon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Being in a state of denial is a universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as… — Sarah E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
There's something called toxic stress, which is repeated exposure to trauma. I was fascinated by how it affects the brain and the… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
“About 98% of the women I coach are sensually shutdown. It’s not that they don’t want to experience extraordinary love, they can’t… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
You suffer from trauma from the things that you've been through because you come from a poverty-stricken background. There are a lot… — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
Whenever I was presented with hardships - trauma, pain, heartbreak, confusion - I, like so many creatives, turned to my art as… — Raye Copy Share Image
A lot of character writing for gay people is talking about trauma. It's nice to - instead of playing trauma - get… — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
“Hanya mereka yang mengenal trauma, mereka yang pernah dicakar sejarah, tahu benar bagaimana menerima kedahsyatan dan keterbatasan yang bernama manusia” — Goenawan Mohamad Copy Share Image
The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“The wellness remembers the deep living of the wound, & so is happier than any easy health.” — Taisia Kitaiskaia Copy Share Image
“Your whole picture of the world broke," he said, "and you felt like you had gone mad." "Yes." "And I didn't even… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
