Quotes About Trauma

On one occasion, when he was about to be taken from the interrogation room, he thought he was going to be shot. His knees buckled and he cried out in a pleading voice: "I have not told you everything yet". -- The Eichmann Trial, page 44

Gli Afghani amano le cose belle» disse, «ma hanno visto così tanti orrori che a volte dimenticano quanto puù essere belle un fiore.»

Mom, you're not going to let him name him, are you? That's favoritism, and I'll be traumatized if you do.

Minnen är som bomber.

in the book, refused to come with him. He grabbed her arm to pull her back. She struggled to get free, and in so doing pulled her arm out of its socket.

Volvemos a lo mismo una y otra vez: usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas. Este es un tema muy importante al que debemos prestar atención.

usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas.

His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.

When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.

The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked.

He was determined to take responsibility but he was just a cog. She'd seen that many times before. It was a belief often borne of a traumatic childhood, it was so much more manageable to believe himself bad than the world.

Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea's reconvening halves?

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

We remember the moments of fear, loss and humiliation most vividly.

Is he all scarred now?" "Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.

I'm traumatized. My life flashed before my eyes. You're life in re-runs would traumatize anyone. You're fine.

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

There is a dazed panic and coiled restraint behind your every movement that will come out later through the flesh, the bone. Months from now you will wake sore and bruised, as if your body cannot forget what happened, and this is the only way it can express the trauma.

No," he said, "I have no sensation there." That was true, and it was the blessing of scars: the deeper they were, the more you couldn't feel anything in them at all.

The American infantry, it is said, has seized control of cities as close as Eisenach and Ehrfurt, ransacking and burning the houses, raping the women, worse than the Russians.

Isabelle had cut off her toes, but sometimes she could still feel them. Maman had cut out her heart. Sometimes, she could still feel that, too.

The events of his childhood had never left him. Instead the memory had grown watery, indistinct, like something he'd dreamed. Abused, molested: these were not terms he used, even to himself.

Because during trauma it is usually not safe or possible for individuals to consciously access their emotional reactions or experiences, awareness often emerges after trauma ceases." KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING ABOUT TRAUMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY