“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.” — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to all who have been affected by sexual violence.” — Robert Uttaro 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
“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)” — Pierre Janet 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
“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
“I guess by default we’re all the ones shaking our heads at the stupidity of others until we’re forced into traumatic experiences… — J.A. Redmerski 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
Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth. — Nadia Murad 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
“I want to remember my past To see before my eyes The image of my parents The house in which I grew… — Itta Benhaiem-Keller 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
“Acceding to researchers in the field of epigenetics, traumatic experiences produce fearful memories that are passed to future generations. A study carried… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos… — Sinead O'Connor 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
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
“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
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that… — Susan Pease Banitt 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The Americans gave it a name, PTSD — Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I had heard about it before: it was something that… — Marco Lupis 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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