Emotionally Overwhelmed Quote by Sue Johnson

“Trauma. It doesn't eke itself out over time. It doesn't split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life. Trauma…

— Holly Bourne

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

— Stephanie S. Covington

“We go through so much trauma in this world. At least we get to die.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“Trauma is what happens to you, to your mind and perhaps to your soul, when you can neither fight nor flee.”

— Zachary Anderegg

“Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.”

— Paul Levy

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very…

— Bora Chung

“We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma’s power to deform the mind and heart.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately.”

— Jessica Stern

“But trauma is all pervasive. It does not go away. It continues to reassert itself as life unfolds.”

— M.D Mark Epstein

“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