Quotes About Trauma

Uno de los aspectos más relevantes en lo que concierne al sistema límbico es la necesidad de contacto físico y de generación de lazos afectivos. Nos tenemos que detener aquí porque este es el punto donde se van a desarrollar la mayor parte de los traumas emocionales que experimentamos los seres humanos y que se proyectan desde la época en la que éramos niños hasta la época en la que ya somos adultos.

Muchos de los traumas que acarreamos son la consecuencia de habernos sentido heridos, rechazados, no suficientemente queridos.

Dado que estas experiencias de soledad, abandono y falta de valoración se registraron en centros del sistema límbico, no es nada fácil poder acceder a ellos de forma consciente, ya que es la amígdala del lado derecho la más importante en lo que se refiere al registro de recuerdos emocionales traumáticos, sobre todo cuando estos traumas han tenido lugar en etapas tempranas del desarrollo.

La infancia es a veces un paraíso perdido, pero otras, es un infierno de mierda.

la sola idea de repetir una relación como la que tenía con su madre la llenaba de espanto.

Sommige ervarings word nooit vergeet nie, net onderdruk.

Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for

Trauma, if it doesn't destroy us, wakes us up both to our own relational capacities and to the suffering of others. Not only does it makes us hurt, it makes us more human, caring, and wise.

Money could not make the rape go away. The physical pain was gone, but the mental pain would never leave Hannah Steele.

People's early experiences shape how crazy or how sane they become.

We are trapped in the jaws of something shaking the life out of us." With these words from his historical novel, Philadelphia Fire, John Edgar Wideman conveys a sense of what it means to be caught out on stage, vulnerable at the point of having one's life taken, shaken out, by what I have term "the theatrics of state terror." Wideman's

A few of the confined, especially with succor from the outside as well as inside, will tap the grandeur of mind and spirit to fight off this spirit death and guard their humanity. Many others, though, will descend into the hellhole of prison-life to become themselves, even if released, a hell-making force. Or perhaps as is even more frequent, they remain so steeped in trauma and the prison's pervasive dread that they are without resources for life when released. They

As psychologist James Hillman reminds us, "Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

Malia said, "And where were you when the mortar hit?" The rapture drained out of the corporal's face. His face clouded. His hand dropped from his heart and grabbed the bottle of honey wine. After pouring a generous slug into his mouth, he swallowed it, shivered, and stared at them all with a haunted expression. "Stalingrad," he said. "The Elbow of the Don.

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.