Trauma Quotes
Trauma Quote of the day
I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.
God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
Radically accept, release and allow suffering to move through you like a passing storm.
There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.
We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.
Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?
society has an embarrassing history of denial
I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.
It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.
The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.
Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
And though, indeed, it only happened once, it’s gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there’s a memory for them to happen in …
Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...
When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.
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.
Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.
I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.
Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.
A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.
We look at your eyes. The eyes carry the wounds. The eyes know damage. Damaged people recognize other damaged people, and we let you in. We are kindred. - Broken Places
no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you’ve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.
Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.
Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.
Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.
A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.
Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate from my heart and spread throughout my chest.
And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me.
You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.
No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.
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.
A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.
The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.
I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.
I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.
...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.
I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.
