Quotes About Recovery

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

During the '80s when I was peaking in my career, I was a heavy drinker and would not be in control post my drinks at times. I used to be a tough husband to live with and had a bad temper. But I have now learnt to control both my drinks and my temper.

I don't cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don't just get up and sing the day after one of those.

I have 16 metal screws in my right arm, from the elbow to the shoulder, and they are extremely painful at the beginning of a training camp and also when the temperature changes. I also had a surgery on my left arm and two on my hips. Those four surgeries were pivotal in my decision to retire.

If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.

Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.

Consciousness returned to Shane like a unpaid whore with an angry pimp

the reverend was back on his feet

They were pitifully few in numbers. More than two thirds of the town's population had died in the storm

the walls were down, the only thing I could do was rebuild.

Tracy knew that some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.

freed House." "Shocked

The loss of hope is nearly as dangerous as the drug itself. Addicts have a lot of self-hatred. They believe they're worthless.

How's the head?... They say I'll need a couple of stitches. Who knows, could be an improvement.

You won't heal, never completely, but it will get better with time.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people's traumatised memories;

I was only going to say that abused people cling to their abusers, don't they? They've been brainwashed to believe there's no alternative." I was the bloody alternative, standing there, right in front of her!

Abused people cling to their abusers.

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime – Mineko Iwasaki

qualified occupational therapist,

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime' (here) Mineko Iwasaki, Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha, published by arrangement with Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 1st Floor, 222 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB. A CBS Company.

He knew some of the signs of post-traumatic stress disorder and she had now survived two near-fatal attacks. In the immediate aftermath of losing half his leg in Afghanistan, he, too, had experienced dissociation, finding himself suddenly and abruptly removed from his present surroundings to those few seconds of acute foreboding and terror that had preceded the disintegration of the Viking in which he had been sitting, and of his body and military career.