Childhood Quote by Drew Pinsky

“Essentially all serial offenders experience trauma in childhood that leaves them unable to form normal emotional and psychological connections with other humans.”

— Joanna Schaffhausen

“The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“There are many heartfelt reasons for pushing our childhood sexual abuse to the edge of our lives and one amazing reason to embrace a…

— Jeanne McElvaney

“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.”

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“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

“Drinking had become Myra's staple answer to all of life’s problems. Sometimes it felt like alcohol had replaced Stephen as Itzy’s second parent.”

— Vrinda Pendred

“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too…

— David L. Calof

“Writers as diverse as Wordsworth and Freud, as Blake and Dickens have all hypothesized that the turbulence and intensity we feel as young children…

— Adam Phillips

“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

“Why is it that the wounds we are afflicted with early in life don’t disappear? Whether they are caused by abuse or humiliation or…

— Erik Valeur

“Drug addiction was a disease, and just as I wouldn’t judge a cancer patient for a tumor, so I shouldn’t judge a narcotics addict…

— J.D. Vance

“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his…

— Nikki Sixx