Quotes About Trauma

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

My mom shot and killed her last husband. Yeah, my dad used to say "Hey, dodged that bullet. Ha ha."

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,' she said. 'Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.