“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.” — Anna Funder 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
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“I face my trauma because I believe in breaking cycles, not repeating them.” — The Thoughtful Beast Copy Share Image
“until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to all who have been affected by sexual violence.” — Robert Uttaro 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
Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic… — Matt Lucas 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
Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening… — Laura Dekker Copy Share Image
“The traumatized soul finds no rest in conditions of peace. It’s forever questing for violence, for action, for the same combination of… — Matthew S. Williams Copy Share Image
“Trauma stories are no more valid or noble than stories of love and heroism. Trauma stories are like black holes in space.… — Annette Vaillancourt Copy Share Image
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth. — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
“Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive.… — Lynette Gould Copy Share Image
“In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible… — Aphrodite Matsakis Copy Share Image
To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn’t go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance,… — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
“They had become muffled and distant then anyway. This happened in those first days after the wave. I couldn't find their faces,… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
I think there's a huge - there's a huge desire in me to make sense of the world in a way that… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
“But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost:… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,… — Rachel E. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I think someone gave me candy when I was younger, someone whose face I don't remember; a blank face from my nightmares. … — kimber nilsson 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
“In this climate of profoundly disrupted relationships the child faces a formidable developmental task. She must find a way to form primary… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Dr. Peter Levine, who has worked with trauma survivors for twenty-five years, says the single most important factor he has learned in… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“Postpartum depression makes a woman feel like she is in the grip of something dreaded and dark, and it's scary. . .… — Judy Dippel Copy Share Image
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
“ You’re in shock. You can’t afford to be in shock. Two parts of himself were having a conversation. You were probably… — Jack Grimwood Copy Share Image
“It's like that sometimes for people who have had traumatic experiences in their past life. It's hard to move on, to belong,… — Amanda Gray Copy Share Image
“I must stop remembering... The more I remember, the greater my agony. These thoughts stuttered in my mind... I must be more… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” — Lynette Gould Copy Share Image
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth,… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
