Quotes About Trauma

Memories of a time she wanted to forget clawed to be heard.

She'd retreated inside again, the nightmares drowning her.

I was thirteen when I saw my mother die, when I told my story. When I started "having a hard time," as my grandfather likes to say. Would they have locked me up if I'd been thirty? If I'd been a boy? It's a question I do not dare to ask.

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

Every existence contains its primal trauma, an event dividing life into a before and an after, a trauma so great that even the most furtive memory of it is enough to make an individual freeze in irrational, incurable, animal terror.

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

I've had guns pointed at me by police officers.

Service members are more likely to have PTSD, but it's common in the general population as well.

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain.

I had five black eyes. I have a cracked rib. I have scars that are just amazing.

'Beloved' is a book that makes me cry.

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

I don't think there is a true cure for PTSD.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated.

My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal grandfather fought in the British Army, on different sides, and both were so traumatized by the experience that they never talked about it.