Quotes About Trauma

Taking trauma to be a primary route to growth and depth, Rabih wants his own sadness to find an echo in his partner's character.

You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?

Outside an ambulance begins to scream as if overwhelmed by the suffering it must forever carry in its belly.

She had a massive headache and there was blood running down her face, but she seemed to be otherwise OK.

Every victim will, given a chance, turn victimizer.

In sum, our findings suggest that narcissistic pathology in the context of BPD may be a protective factor that helps narcissistic patients to stay in treatment, limit self-destructiveness, and contain disorganization in the face of early traumatic attachment experiences

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.

Two decades had passed, yet she still saw her parents' bloodied bodies in every shooting victim she treated.

The hostility and venomous response the topic of sexual trauma and rape in the military brings up, especially with men from my Era, is revealing. This opposition speaks to their guilt and toward the truth that stays hidden.

Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return.

The men who beat me were driven as much by fear as hate.

They stared at me, at Isaac, and then at the floor rather than at each other, as if they had long since come to terms with the fact that on any given evening men could burst into their house and do something terrible to them. There's no honest measure for the toll that sort of knowledge takes, whether the scale is the breadth of a single room or an entire city.

Shvataš li šta je to po?i u rat? Ako se i vratim, ne?u biti onaj koji je otišao. Ja se, Natalija, ne bojim smrti, bojim se rata. Užasno se bojim rata.

Some may not believe my account; they may think it was some kind of wish fulfillment during a point of severe trauma. I don't have to defend my experience. I know what happened to me. For those of us whose faith is in the reality of heaven, no amount of evidence is necessary.

In his mind's eye, though, he sees— —Taliban moving like scorpions across a similar landscape his own caravan blown to shit blood streaming from buddies Now I'm one of them He sights in again. No time for Lack of PTSD He only hopes that Gentle Ben Increase-the-Peace Ben is one of them, too, now. Now, Ben. Find your inner Taliban.

We can say that the roots of the heroin epidemic are in Mexican soil, but opiates are always a response to pain. What is the pain in the heart of American society that sends us searching for a drug to lessen it, to dampen it?

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?