Quotes About Trauma

It's not until after you've been hit by a car and landed all right that the fear kicks in.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that.

Freddy Krueger scared us. 'Hellraiser' really messed us up.

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

I was bullied in elementary to middle school. It messed with my self esteem.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

One night, militia tried to break into our home, and the exterior was riddled with bullets.

I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate. And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.

Refuting the simplistic statement that "ADHD is caused by bad parenting" avoids a more complex argument (given in chapter 7) that adverse factors such as physical abuse or trauma in a child's home environment can impair neurological development and be linked to ADHD symptoms.

However brain functioning is measured, these studies tell us nothing about whether the observed anomalies were present at birth or whether they resulted from trauma, chronic stress or other early-childhood experiences.

The familial and emotional components may be most relevant for a child who is traumatized by physical abuse or other forms of stress at home.

Shiloh isn't haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn't care.

M for Mischa.

Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter's earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

Graham switched on the lights and bloodstains shouted at him from the walls, from the mattress and the floor. The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying. Graham sat on the floor until his head was quiet. Still, still, be still.

But then last September the rockets came. Them fucking rockets. You couldn't adjust to the bastards.

The numbers of people enslaved within Africa itself exceeded the numbers exported. History has largely forgotten them.

What all of this means for people who've grown up in dysfunctional families or traumatic or abusive situations is that the world they live in—the reality they inhabit—is very different from the world of people who have been cared for, supported, and loved. This is why people who have grown up in supportive, close-knit families often can't understand why those of us who were abused may have such trouble with relationships or with life itself.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move." JEFFREY EUGENIDES

She had been shot once, point-blank in the chest, from five, maybe six feet away.

The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.

Finch knew that no matter how old it might say she was on her I.D., what those men had done to her had shoved her headlong into adulthood.

People who've been traumatized by a crime are victims, too. Finding ways to comfort them is also part of my job.