Quotes About Trauma

She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times!

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

The feeling I got from my research is that the victims of bombings end up becoming as alienated from the government as the terrorists who cause the attacks.

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.

A soul wound doesn't grow a new layer of normality overnight" Cinderella in Focus: Cindy'Secret

You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

We can honor our emotions after any traumatic event by moving through the experience centered in the heart with the goal of reaching the light on the other side.

The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life's traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

If haunted by an emotional upheaval in your life, try writing about it or sharing the experience with others. However, if you catch yourself telling exactly the same story over and over in order to get past your distress, rethink your strategy. Try writing or talking about your trauma in a completely different way. How

S)lavery could not function without the lubricant of violence. . . The whip accompanied the lives of the enslaved from the moment they entered an Atlantic slave ship to their dying days in slavery.