Quotes About Trauma

raping and beating her

Her skin bore vicious weals and scars.

It was like someone looking at a horrible battlefield wound and saying, "Let's put a Band-Aid on this thing, patch it right up!

wondered at the human brain's ability to seize on some terrible personal event and let that event define and control every action for years, decades, even lifetimes.

because after Jacobi and I got shot on Larkin

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

As much as 'It Chapter One' is a movie about friendship and the power of unified belief, the second part is more about trauma.

I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza.

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

Every day millions of innocent children around the world experience unimaginable horrors because of war.

I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

Conflict is always more interesting to play. Not everyone gets along in the trauma unit. In a hard-pressed job like this, there will always be friction.

You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.

I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.

After what she's been through, there really should be crime scene tape around her heart.