Psychology Quote by Sara Shepard

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

— Asa Don Brown

“I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself in its totality makes you safe.”

— Lionel Shriver

“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world —…

— Anonymous

“Everybody dreams about being harmed. It’s easy. Much tougher to recover from the dream of harming…”

— Martin Amis

Just because you're damaged doesn't mean you must damage others. You have choices. We all make them every day.

— Shannon Delany

“You're not damaged. But even if you were, I'd spend the rest of my life fixing you. My life isn't mine either,Caitlin. I can't…

— S.H. Kolee

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

— Josephine Hart

“When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.”

— Macdougall John

“What I do know is that we become traumatized when our ability to respond to a perceived threat is in some way overwhelmed. This…

— Peter A. Levine

Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are…

— Peter A. Levine

“How could something taht made a person feel so safe be so BAD?”

— Katie Alender

“It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon