Aspects Quote by David Perlmutter

“Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human behavior. .…

— American Psychological Association

“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

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

— Daniel Tammet

“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

“It's a mistake to think that if we don't remember or don't acknowledge painful experiences they will just disappear. In fact, great damage is…

— Susan Forward

“When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in…

— Deborah Bray Haddock

The great events of the world take place in the brain...

— Oscar Wilde

“Action triggers reaction. An object somehow responds when we observe it. We just assume that we do objective. In fact, unconsciously we only want…

— Toba Beta

“It’s a bad combination for the amygdala to be oversensitized while the hippocampus is compromised: painful experiences can then be recorded in implicit memory—with…

— Rick Hanson

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

— Daniel Goleman