Emotions Quote by Susan Pease Banitt

“It was difficult to find information because Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was called shell shock during W.W.II, and when Vietnam Vets were found to…

— Sara Niles

“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)”

— Pierre Janet

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

— Stephanie S. Covington

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

— Anonymous

“... Your body is not a tragedy. It is the only one you get, no matter how much it may challenge, confound, frustrate, or…

— Lesley Kinzel

As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions,…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.”

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against…

— Sigmund Freud

“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us…

— Susan Pease Banitt

When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

— Alexander Den Heijer

“Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then…

— Anonymous

“Being in a state of denial is a universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as children sometimes…

— Sarah E. Olson