“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness… — Lauren Miller 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
“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make… — Bessel A. van der Kolk 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
“We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive… — Darlene Ouimet 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
“Attitude Is Everything We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds… — Sandra Lee Dennis 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
“So, what role does memory play in the understanding and treatment of trauma? There is a form of implicit memory that is… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.” — Patricia Cornwell 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
“Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.” — Stephanie S. Covington Copy Share Image
“Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the… — Renee Fredrickson Copy Share Image
“The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me… — James Coyne Copy Share Image
“Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear… — Donald Kalsched 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
“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
“The human need to be visible is countered by the need to be invisible to avoid further abuse, and the need for… — Christiane Sanderson Copy Share Image
“In 1973, Jan Erik Olsson walked into a small bank in Stockholm, Sweden, brandishing a gun, wounding a police officer, and taking… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Further evidence for the pathogenic role of dissociation has come from a largescale clinical and community study of traumatized people conducted by… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Victims”, by definition, are those that have just experienced a trauma of some sort. They are going through an entire array of… — Melisa Mel Copy Share Image
