Quotes About Trauma

If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life's many losses buried in those sands.

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?

It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

What if significant reasons our veterans suffer in epidemic numbers lie, to paraphrase Shakespeare, "not in the veterans but in ourselves"? What if the sources of traumatic breakdown are in society; in our beliefs and practices; in the reasons and ways we prepare for and make war; and in the ways we neglect or fail our troops before, during, and after service? What if veterans are carrying our collective war wounding alone because it is denied and disowned by society at large?

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

The psyche adjusts to trauma in so many different ways, we just can't assume anything yet. But the resilience of the human spirit is a wondrous thing, truly limitless. Despair passes and anything can be born from it, anything at all. And Assaf is very young and he's strong inside, so we'll wait and watch and listen, and we'll see what we can do to help him regain his footing.

But not all scars showed, did they?

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

when highly sensitive patients had experienced a trauma, sexual or otherwise, they had been unusually affected and so developed a neurosis.

If someone caring for you became angry or dangerous, the conscious mind buried that information as too awful to acknowledge

When holding is not adequate, when the infant/body is intruded upon or neglected—or worse, abused—stimulation is too intense for the infant/body self. Its only recourse is to stop being conscious and present, thereby developing a habit of "dissociating" as a defense. Overstimulation at this age also interrupts self-development. All energy must be directed toward keeping the world from intruding. The whole world is dangerous.

Children of narcissists emerge from this crucible with a common and most serious problem. They feel that they do not have the right to exist.

she crashed to the sidewalk.

horrors of inequality, violence, always carried