Childhood Quote by Tony Adams

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

“Childhood trauma and sufferings does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while in no…

— Peter R Breggin

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

— Richard Bentall

“Psychologists call the everyday occurrences of my and Lindsay’s life “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACEs. ACEs are traumatic childhood events, and their consequences reach…

— J.D. Vance

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there…

— Angela Merkel

“Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience…

— Donald Kalsched

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one…

— Peter Straub

Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals;…

— Lisa Firestone

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

— Anonymous

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

“Though, the type of abuse differs from each individual, all survivors of child abuse deal with a certain extent of trauma, consciously or unconsciously.”

— Patricia Dsouza

I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's…

— Roland Orzabal