Abandonment Quote by Melissa Febos

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

Childhood trauma is childhood trauma, whether you're a player or a forklift driver. They are the same feelings, and there are the same solutions.

— Tony Adams

“certain incidents do more than just touch our raw spots or “hurt our feelings.” They injure us so deeply that they overturn our world.…

— Sue Johnson

“Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.”

— Asa Don Brown

I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's…

— Roland Orzabal

“Trauma is the great masquerader and participant in many maladies and “dis-eases” that afflict sufferers. It can perhaps be conjectured that unresolved trauma is…

— Peter A. Levine

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

— Richard Bentall

“The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment…

— Warwick Middleton

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

— Peter A. Levine

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

— James Frey

I'd say that the only trauma I've suffered was existential.

— Yossi Ghinsberg

“Though, the type of abuse differs from each individual, all survivors of child abuse deal with a certain extent of trauma, consciously or unconsciously.”

— Patricia Dsouza