“There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
“If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“The greatest misunderstanding that we confront every day in the mental health arena is thinking all emotional wounds are trauma. The greatest… — Antonieta Contreras Copy Share Image
The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality.… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time… — Gauri Sharma Copy Share Image
“Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I know what it feels like to have something living inside that eats away at your sanity. They call it trauma, a… — J.B. Salsbury Copy Share Image
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of… — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
“After the fog lifts and you awaken to the truth about abuse, the narcissist and flying monkeys will minimize the facts about… — Dana Arcuri, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
While it is couples who 'are going to have a baby,' miscarriages only happen to women. Yet the emotional trauma of the… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
This is not a slow movement of change. It's a shift in the consciousness of each of us. It is a collective… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What I keep thinking about is that... it’s a long time ahead of me without her. My whole 20s. And 30s. And… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We're not just healing from what's been inflicted onto… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“...a freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it's difficult for people… — Babette Rothschild Copy Share Image
“Survival is balance. Life’s ugliness is balanced by beauty. Trauma is balanced by awe. For me, being on the road has come… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Economic activity can help repair war-torn societies, but if it's not conducted responsibly, it can also create or prolong violence. Companies and… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
If I didn't write in my journal every couple of days, I felt like I was going to burst. Later I learned… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul.… — Gary Zukav 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
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