Quotes About Trauma

He hadn't hit her in several years, but when you've been beaten you never forget it. The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. It takes a real coward to beat a woman.

fierce obsession with anything, and especially something as traumatic as a murder, was not healthy. Denise and Alfred had discussed it over the years, but not recently. They worried about Jeri, though they could do nothing to change her.

I'm concerned. He witnessed something awful, and he might be in shock.

A "snap" is certainly not a medical term. Experts use fancier language to describe the instant when a troubled person steps over the edge. Nonetheless, a snap is a real moment. It can happen in a split second, the result of a terribly traumatic event. Or it can be the final straw, the sad culmination of pressure that builds and builds until the mind and body must find a release.

The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw.

This woman has had the hell beaten out of her.

What more is there to say than it was traumatic, a moment that breaks your life in half? That you never heal from it, and it blankets your life in sadness and fear forever?

Of course: because it was in one of the camps that he went blind. They had performed some failed experiment on his eyes in the camp. 'No, not summer camp,' Franny had to tell Lilly, who had always been afraid of being sent to summer camp, and was unsurprised to hear that they tortured the campers.

You are never over your childhood, not until you are under the train—unter dem Zug.

He did so, after the shocking birth of his first child (he was treated at the State University of Iowa hospital in March of 196$ for a fainting spell, following the first look at his gory, swaddled son. 'It's a boy!' the nurse, fresh and dripping from the delivery room, informed him. 'Will it live?' asked Trumper, sliding gelatinous to the floor).

Quite understandably, as a Jew, Noah felt that German was the language of his people's executioners and he refused to learn a word of it.)

raped her while he was living with them.

AN INFECTION is an act of violence; it is an invasion, a rape, and the body reacts violently.

emerged, the puncture wounds they'd caused oozing blood onto the straw.

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

She has scars the eyes cannot see, scars that will never heal.