Different types Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

“Victims of a devastating trauma may never be the same biologically. [emphasis added].” Trauma”

— Ann Frederick

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

— Michael Helm

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

“Trauma and stress experienced in difficult situations can be passed on genetically as well. The gene itself does not alter, but the imprint left…

— Shreya Sen-Handley

“The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.”

— Asa Don Brown

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in…

— Eileen Simpson

“A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!”

— Munia Khan

I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there…

— Melissa Febos

The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never…

— Mark Epstein

“the key channel through which early adversity causes damage to developing bodies and brains is stress.”

— Paul Tough