Abusive-people Quote by Shahida Arabi

“Survivors often get to a point in recovery where they can predict the responses of the toxic person.”

— Shannon Thomas

“I have been known to tell survivors, who are remaining in contact with intensely toxic people, that I cannot continue to work with them…

— Shannon Thomas

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“People can immediately react in a sudden emergency, run away, yell, kick, and bite and try to protect themselves in some way. When the…

— Zoe McKey

“We have learned through research on trauma survivors that early events that stimulate our fight-or-flight response have long-lasting effects. It usually directs us to…

— Bandy X Lee

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of…

— Al Gore

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Some abusers on the middle-to-high end of the toxicity spectrum have absolutely no reservations about damaging survivors in any way possible, even to their…

— Shannon Thomas

“Many Survivors blame themselves for the abuse and continue to feel responsible and guilty for anything bad that happens to them or to other…

— Carolyn Ainscough

Delay always breeds danger.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. So often men trip by being in a rush. If…

— John Steinbeck

“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will…

— Winston S. Churchill