“until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this… — Deborah Bray Haddock 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
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof 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
“I hold the hands of people I never touch. I provide comfort to people I never embrace. I watch people walk into… — Stephen White Copy Share Image
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Dissociation can be interpreted as an “emergency defense,” or a “shut off mechanism.”[6] According to Allen and Smith,[6] it is understood as… — Julie P. Gentile Copy Share Image
“To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)” — Pierre Janet Copy Share Image
“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay” — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest, Children dying in the road, Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience. — Lynne Tillman 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
“Who made the law that men should die in meadows? Who spake the word that blood should splash in lanes? Who gave… — Michael Tappenden Copy Share Image
“Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. "The past tense", I supposed… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I… — Michele Rosenthal Copy Share Image
