Quotes About Trauma

War affects people in different ways.

In April 2005, I lost my father and after a few days, I went to Sajid Khan's place to discuss a film role. I wanted to keep myself busy with work so that I could forget the pain of losing a parent. When I went to meet him, he randomly asked me to touch his private parts.

I had an attachment disorder.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

My childhood was extreme.

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived as a teenager through the time of a brutal dictator called Idi Amin. I fled and became a refugee.

I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.

I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery.

The blast blew most of my teeth out, I have screws and plates in my face, I lost the eye.

I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.

It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.

I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and solitude.

Although the possibility of emotional trauma is ever-present, so too is the possibility of forming bonds of deep emotional attunement within which devastating emotional pain can be held, rendered more tolerable, and, hopefully, eventually integrated.

Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people's traumatised memories;

I was only going to say that abused people cling to their abusers, don't they? They've been brainwashed to believe there's no alternative." I was the bloody alternative, standing there, right in front of her!

Abused people cling to their abusers.

Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people's traumatized memories; he had made himself the confidant of thugs; he had bullied the terrified, baited the dangerous and laid traps for the cunning.

He would never know what it was like to feel yourself small, weak and powerless. He would never understand what rape did to your feelings about your own body: to find yourself reduced to a thing, an object, a piece of fuckable meat.