Childhood trauma Quote by Peter R Breggin

“I look at my mother, connected by a breath of glimmering hope, her red and shadowed eyes reveal that some element of our whole…

— Alfred Nestor

“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you always?" "What…

— Stephen M. Irwin

I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

“Pleasure fades, gets old, gets thrown out with last year's fad. Fear, guilt, all that stuff stays fresh. Maybe that's why people get so…

— Katherine Applegate

“I would like to see us grow in developing a deep understanding of the need for healing as an abolitionist practice. Many of us…

— Julia Sudbury

“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard…

— Danielle Bernock

“Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down you. Your…

— Dan Chaon

“If your mother lived your life as though it were her own-never allowing you a moment of stress or frustration, routinely sleeping in your…

— Victoria Secunda

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And…

— Helen Fisher

“Another gene/environment interaction pertains to depression, a disease involving serotonin abnormalities.33 A gene called 5HTT codes for a transporter that removes serotonin from the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and culture. Even…

— Scott Stossel

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but…

— Martin Seligman