Quotes About Recovery

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

The doctors have said that they don't want me in the ring bouncing around or getting picked up and slammed down. They said the old head just can't survive anymore trauma.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

Children certainly can't learn if they're dealing with trauma or mental illness.

Just because it was multiple ligaments, just because of the trauma of the injury, they compared it to like a car accident. I didn't have anybody to follow, there was no timetable. I could get better, I could not get better. You just don't know. People fear what they don't know. I'm in the dark, and everything is just about faith.

A break-up between couples is traumatic for everyone.

I just want people to know that I'm OK, and if I can get through something this traumatic, anybody can get through what's going on in their life.

I was 10 years old when the Northridge quake happened, and I lived right in the area, so it was a traumatic thing for me. I'd never had anything like that happen before. It's always stuck with me.

The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.

My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you're the instigator or the recipient. It's hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again.

From any traumatic injury, you're going to experience a lack of confidence. There's a whole process you have to go through to break free of that.

I don't think it's healthy to have 68-year-old men, 70-year-old men thinking regularly about a traumatic experience that happened to them and thinking that they cannot talk about it with anybody, and no one wants to listen.

Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth.

Every time I smacked my right foot to the ground I couldn't absorb shock. So no matter what, I've thought about this a lot, it doesn't matter what my life in football would have looked like, it was so traumatic for me that I just couldn't play the game I loved. And I didn't know how to handle that as a teenager.

My childhood was so traumatic.