Quotes About Recovery

The right hemisphere was not without some language—but only the most emotionally charged units of communication could lodge in that affective hemisphere; my vocabulary was now down to nine words. (This, I learned later, was exceptional, many victims of CVAs retain only two or three.) For the record, here is my entire vocabulary of manageable words: fuck, shit, piss, cunt, goddamn, motherfucker, asshole, peepee, and poopoo;

driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heavens will; She can, though every face will scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still.

Strange," said Natalie. "What?" "Two gunshot wounds, pneumonia, a concussion, three broken ribs, and enough cuts and bruises to keep a football team happy for a full season." "Jews are hard to kill.

Bessel van der Kolk: "The nature of trauma is that you have no recollection of it as a story.

It is the nature of trauma that, when left untreated, it deepens over time.

But gratitude and trauma weren't mutually exclusive.

The nature of trauma is that you have no recollection of it as a story.

The nature of trauma," van der Kolk had said, "is that you have no recollection of it as a story. The nature of traumatic experience is that the brain doesn't allow a story to be created.

Emotional resilience comes down to how quickly we recover from upsets. People who are highly resilient—who bounce back right away—can have as much as thirty times more activation in the left prefrontal area than those who are less resilient.

The key to resilience is trying really hard, then stopping, recovering, and then trying again.

Thus while we cannot decide when we have our emotional outbursts, we have more control over how long they last. A quicker recovery time from such outbursts may well be one mark of emotional maturity.

As he practiced more, added loving-kindness to the mix, and went on retreats, his PTSD symptoms gradually became less frequent, less intense.

La ansiedad y la irritabilidad crónicas vuelven a las personas más susceptibles a la acción de un amplio abanico de enfermedades, y aunque la depresión no constituya la causa directa de la enfermedad, sí que parece interferir, en cambio, en el curso de su recuperación y aumentar el riesgo de mortalidad, especialmente en el caso de los pacientes aquejados de enfermedades graves.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

This wasn't life, of course. This was life support. This was what the medical world had fashioned to take the place of Purgatory.

"No weekend, all weakened."

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I'm supposed to do right now. Right now I can't sleep. It's right now that I can't eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he's not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don't know what to do with all this hurt right now.

Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.

Sometimes it takes leaving a toxic relationship to put yourself in a position to be in a healthy relation.

When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

When you get hurt in love, there are very few things that actually help get over the pain.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.