Iraq war Quote by Neal Stephenson

There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something…

— Richard Dawkins

“Maybe PTSD really is triggered by a single incident, a stressor, as it's known in the psychiatric community, and maybe the attack at Al-Waleed…

— Luis Carlos Montalván

“Recently, a young Iraq veteran took issue with calling his combat anguish PTSD and, instead, poignantly referred to his pain and suffering as PTSI—the…

— Peter A. Levine

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

— Jane Leavy

You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that…

— Dale Archer

“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the…

— Donna Tartt

“By listening to the “unspoken voice” of my body and allowing it to do what it needed to do; by not stopping the shaking,…

— Peter A. Levine

I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I…

— Damian Lewis

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a…

— Mia Bloom

Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].

— Alice Winocour

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a…

— Axl Rose

“Several medical professional organizations acknowledge the utility of opioid therapy and many case series and large surveys report satisfactory reductions in pain, improvement in…

— Andrew Rosenblum