Children Quote by Carol Broad

“Dissociation leaves us disconnected from our memories, our identities and our emotions. It breaks the trauma into digestible components, so that different aspects of…

— Shahida Arabi

“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions…

— Judith Spencer

“The government researchers,aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use…

— Cheryl Hersha Lynn Hersha

“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead to the…

— Elizabeth F. Howell

“Childhood trauma and sufferings does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while in no…

— Peter R Breggin

“Just as this scale predicted the future health and happiness of the children in this study, so does knowing and telling our own stories…

— Desmond Tutu

“The second factor helping to bring the dissociative disorders back into the mainstream was the Vietnam War. For sociological reasons originating outside psychology and…

— Colin A. Ross

“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They feel hopeless,…

— Suzette Boon

“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other situations and…

— Julie P. Gentile

“SELFHOOD AND DISSOCIATION The patient with DID or dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) has used their capacity to psychologically remove themselves from repetitive…

— Warwick Middleton

We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.

— Rege-Jean Page

When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you…

— Patrisse Cullors