Ptsd Quotes
If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?
Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...
Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...
The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.
Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.
There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding
The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").
Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I’d be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.
I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.
Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though.
It's safer for you to stay with the others, ' he said.Safer? He didn't realize.I was already dead.
Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.
There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.
The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left.
For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do.
Trauma can have a masking effect.
They Served...reliving memoriesthat will not diegiving their allfor you and I -friends takenlives shaken...
It was "Boom Boom" Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the five men inside.
Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.
The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.
You’re not the same. You’re not supposed to be the same. You’re supposed to be different. This isn’t something you will ever forget.
It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.
The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
No matter how bad your life gets if you Execute yourself it won't get better!
If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will
Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone.
Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.
Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
We don't heal in isolation, but in community.
... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous things which made him so. The iron forged on the anvil cannot be blamed for the hammer...
Seeing you with that guy tonight made me nuts, because every bone in my body says you’re mine.
War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.
I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.
When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.
See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.
Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told.
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 anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.
What if I lose what little control I have left? I may live in a prison now, but at least I know my way around it.
I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.
It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.
Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.
