Abuse Quote by Patricia Dsouza

“As the treatment progressed, I began to get a picture of myself, of the temperament that had caused me so much trouble. I had…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame,…

— Suzette Boon

“There was no other explanation for such an illness in a man otherwise so young and fit. It was the consequence of failing to…

— Philip Roth

“And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the…

— Doris Lessing

“It’s the hysterical individual who allows his life to be polarized by simple extreme antitheses like strength—weakness, potency—impotence, health—sickness.”

— Saul Bellow

“Singular as it may appear, the sufferer had now contracted a sort of affection for his tormentor, mingled, however, with the intensest loathing and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I had a lack of confidence, which caused me to back down from forcefully stated positions; an i was overly emotional at the expense…

— Julia Child

“Personality disordered individuals have over-inflated egos that cannot handle even the smallest of bruising.”

— Shannon Thomas

“We start off in childhood believing parents might have access to a superior kind of knowledge and experience. They look, for a while, astonishingly…

— Alain de Botton

“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.”

— John Connolly

“Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I…

— Nicole Krauss

“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