“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.” — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.” — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.” — David Jones Copy Share Image
“Triggers take us back To pain, trauma, or anger. Use them to heal self.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
“If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too.” — Jamie Raskin 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
“Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost.” — Kiese Laymon 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
I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around. — Mary Gauthier 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
“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
“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
Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging. — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
“Refugees are not a monolith. Each journey is unique. Some arrive with dreams and aspirations; others carry the heavy burdens of trauma… — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every single one of us will have our life interrupted, whether it's by the ripcord of a diagnosis or some other kind… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
“Those who have had contacts with extraterrestrials also report having strong allergic reactions. Indeed, trauma (usually in childhood) seems to be a… — Laurence Galian 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
“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
“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
“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
“Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have… — Valerie Sinason 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
“It is necessary to make this point in answer to the 'iatrogenic' theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be… — Graeme Galton Copy Share Image
“Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.” — Asa Don Brown 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
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Don't allow triggers To rob you of sound judgement. Question your feelings.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
Some have reevaluated their own trauma in light of learning about the Bystander Effect. — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer . — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
