Quotes About Recovery

All you need, you think, is a breather, a few minutes standing up at the bar like in the old days, having a harmless bottle of beer. Only the bottle of beer isn't harmless; it's a trigger. It sets off that crazy thing in your mind that made you a dipso in the first place...

He didn't understand what happened to him. He felt like a piece of paper that had once had coherent writing on it but had been through the wash. He felt roughened, bleached, and worn out along the fold lines.

As one anthropologist pointed out to me, trauma is usually a group experience, so trauma recovery should be a group experience as well. But in our society it's not.

How like a mental illness a nation's economy was!

We just went through a bad divorce. - Violent bad? Restraining-order bad? - No, no. Just emotionally painful. - OK, so an ordinary divorce.

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

Later that year, when snow started to hide the front steps, when morning became evening as I sat on the sofa, buried under everything I'd lost, I made a fire and used my laughter for kindling: Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!

And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again.

We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma's power to deform the mind and heart.

At first I thought I'd walked into a tree, but then that tree became a person, who was also recovering on the ground, and then I saw that it was her and she saw that it was me...

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she has slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time.

Trebuie sa marturisesc ca am capatat depresie atunci si inca mai am.

The character damage of a trauma survivor can be understood as a reflection both of his or her radical aloneness and of the continued presence of the perpetrator in the victim's inner life.

Combat trauma destroys the capacity for social trust, accounting for the paranoid state of being that blights the lives of most severely traumatized combat veterans.

The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of their being too servile; neither

I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned

The first man and woman knew it all; they had pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge, before they tasted the forbidden fruit and were thrown out of Paradise. Adam and Eve enjoyed not only perfect knowledge but perfect power; and there was no death in the world. Once we recover what our First Parents knew, we will conquer death again.

Herida Duelo Vasoconstricción ? Incredulidad Dolor agudo ? Regresión Sangrado ? Furia Coágulo ? Culpa Retracción del coágulo ? Desolación Reconstrucción tisular ? Identificación y Fecundidad Cicatriz ? Aceptación

Estar de duelo no es estar enfermo. Más bien, al contrario, el proceso que conlleva la superación de una pérdida es la garantía de desarrollo, crecimiento y salud.

Si bien es obvio, o debería serlo, que el duelo no es una enfermedad, podemos encontrar en las estadísticas médicas algunos datos inquietantes: – 90% de las personas sufren trastornos del sueño durante el duelo, – 50% padecen seudoalucinaciones auditivas o visuales, – 50% tienen síntomas similares a los que condujeron al fallecido a la muerte, – 4% de parientes cercanos fallecen en el primer año de duelo.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life but as an aspect of life.