In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
“We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself.” — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation. — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
This is kind of a dual existence where you are harsh but at the same time emotional. You are there because you… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
“We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma’s power to deform the mind and heart.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity — Julien Clerc 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
If God truly wanted me to stop, all He'd have to do is have one doctor at the Mayo Clinic find something… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
“Stop pretending to be happy! If the relationship isn’t working let it go, and save you both from tolerating each other. Release… — Keishorne Scott Copy Share Image
Just because it was multiple ligaments, just because of the trauma of the injury, they compared it to like a car accident.… — Shaun Livingston Copy Share Image
There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia,… — Richard E. Besser Copy Share Image
When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
“Trauma. It doesn't eke itself out over time. It doesn't split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but… — Tian Dayton Copy Share Image
“The door suddenly jerks open. A wide-eyed teenager bursts out. She stares at me in dazed horror. In a strange way, I… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist… — Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman Copy Share Image
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Five has sort of had his own little life aside from everyone. He spent 45 years in the apocalypse, and that took… — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.' — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
Childhood trauma is childhood trauma, whether you're a player or a forklift driver. They are the same feelings, and there are the… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
“A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“There is not a trace of blood anywhere except here, in my throat, where I am telling you all this.” — Lê Thi Diem Thúy 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
“Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.” — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.” — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
“The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image