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There's something called toxic stress, which is repeated exposure to trauma. I was fascinated by how it affects the brain and the development of…

— Lynne Ramsay

“Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.”

— Stephanie S. Covington

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

— Asa Don Brown

“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)”

— Pierre Janet

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a…

— Anne Grant

I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma.

— Tarana Burke

My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.

— Ann McKee

“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us…

— Susan Pease Banitt

There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to…

— Michael Helm

“Nowadays many psychologists have found evidence that post traumatic stress disorder can be a cause of long-term emotional and physical problems, even when we…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are…

— Peter A. Levine

“So, what role does memory play in the understanding and treatment of trauma? There is a form of implicit memory that is profoundly unconscious…

— Peter A. Levine