Long time Quote by Angela Duckworth

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

— James Frey

“We have learned through research on trauma survivors that early events that stimulate our fight-or-flight response have long-lasting effects. It usually directs us to…

— Bandy X Lee

“People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries they do…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“In fact, scholars have noted that many trauma survivors appear at times even to seek out their further traumatization through various self-destructive reenactments and…

— Paul Frewen

“Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.”

— Asa Don Brown

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

In moments after trauma, the way to survive is to just think about yourself, which is selfish to people around you, but it's also…

— Eva Victor

“Although humans rarely die from trauma, if we do not resolve it, our lives can be severely diminished by its effects. Some people have…

— Peter A. Levine

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

— Byron Katie

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

— Peter A. Levine

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

— Leo Buscaglia

Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary…

— Drew Pinsky