Explosions Quote by Peter A. Levine

“Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.”

— Stephanie S. Covington

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

— James Frey

“So for those who think abuse survivors can simply logically process their situation and get out of and over the situation easily, think again.…

— Shahida Arabi

Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of…

— Stephen Dobyns

“Dissociation can be interpreted as an “emergency defense,” or a “shut off mechanism.”[6] According to Allen and Smith,[6] it is understood as an attempt…

— Julie P. Gentile

“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

“The scientific research is very clear that experiencing trauma without control can be debilitating. But I also worry about people who cruise through life,…

— Angela Duckworth

Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary…

— Drew Pinsky

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

— John Bradshaw

“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

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

— Byron Katie