Quotes About Trauma

The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.

I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

Los psiquiatras se centran demasiado en la escena primaria y la privación preedípica, me parece, e ignoran el trauma de la escuela y los otros niños, que son crueles y despiadados

the majority of people are resilient in the face of trauma, and recover to pre-trauma physical and emotional functioning without the need of professional assistance; that certain "protective factors" have been shown to promote positive responses to trauma; and that parenting styles following significantly stressful life experiences have a substantial impact on children's functioning.

The Japanese believe that it takes three generations to forget. Those who experience a trauma pass it along to their children and their grandchildren, and then the memory fades.

Lately I've been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

There were some memories, she knew, you could run from forever and never shake. Josie

So you see, this is why I never told my story. If you lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it. And if you didn't, you will never understand.

There was blood, so much blood that it painted his face and stained his hair. There was blood, so much blood that several moments passed before I recognized my father.

The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

This is why I never told my story... If you lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it. And if you didn't, you will never understand..

Amnesia was one way for the mind to protect itself from reliving something that would otherwise break you apart.

Broken heart syndrome is a lot like a heart attack symptom-wise, but it's caused by emotional trauma instead of heart disease.

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

one person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. Ervin

Josie started being able to sleep through the night again, instead of waking up screaming. Part of going back to normal meant erasing the boundaries of what was abnormal, and within a few months, the way Alex had felt on 9/11 was slowly forgotten, like a tide washing out a message she'd once scrawled on the sand.

Some feel that because they lived, it's their responsibility to tell the world what happened, so it won't happen again, and so people won't forget. Others believe that the only way to go on with the rest of our lives is to act as if it never happened.

How do you do it? I ask softly, and I'm no longer asking just about her and Josef but about myself as well. How do you get up every morning and not remember?

It's post-traumatic stress disorder. When these women go ballistic and shoot their husbands or slice off their dicks, they aren't thinking about the consequences . . . just about stopping the aggression.

Survivors who look perfectly fine on the outside can still be emotionally empty at the core. And because of that, they can't always connect with their kids or their spouses—or they make the conscious decision not to connect, so that they don't fail the people they love.

one person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it and if you didn't, you will never understand.

Some feel that because they lived, it's their responsibility to tell the world what happened, so it won't happen again, and so people won't forget. Others believe that the only way to go on with the rest of their lives is to act as if it never happened.