Quotes About Trauma

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

The abduction phenomenon also seems to offer new perspectives on human destructiveness.

However, at the present time this is merely speculation. There is little hard data about the accuracy of material transformed from traumatic to semantic memory. More research is needed in this area.

As has so often been said, there is, as yet, no recorded abduction experience that proved, upon investigation, to be a reflection of some other trauma or experience, despite a great deal of effort on the part of investigators to find some other source for these experiences.

It is hard to imagine how the psyche could generate so intense a level of emotion without some kind of exposure to an extraordinary experience as the template for that emotion.

It is true that abduction experiences do show some of the symptoms associated with post-traumatic states, but these symptoms appear to be the result, not the cause, of what the experiencers have undergone.

Furthermore, there is much more involved in the complex narratives of abduction experiences than human trauma per se.

I have never encountered anything similar to this in patients I have known to be traumatized by humans, or in psychotic patients suffering from delusions.

It bears repeating that no case has yet been reported where the alien abduction story masked another kind of traumatic experience. The reverse, however, has frequently been noted, including in my case experience – i.e. that a client presenting with a complaint of possible sexual abuse or trauma has discovered a history of alien abduction experiences, even when being treated by a therapist unfamiliar with the phenomenon and certainly not expecting that an abduction story would emerge.

No one should ever have to see their mom crumpled up in a corner on the floor the way I did so many times.

People who are abused keep quiet," he said, "so I did.

We become bonded to the person who aggresses against us," said Dr. Ochberg. "And that's the Stockholm syndrome.

FOR MARY, the weeks and months after the explosion were the most critical of her life.

Trauma creates change you don't choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.

If you were hurt at a younger age, its the thought that is killing you now

It is often said that the Germans have never recovered from the Thirty Years' War in the seventeenth century, that the brutality of that momentous clash between Protestant and Catholic armies hard-wired into their national character a sense of insecurity that they have never been able to shake off.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

I felt that my life was permanently damaged, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a shell.

They weren't necessarily soldiers, but you didn't have to be soldiers to be affected by it all.

I knew then the answer to my question; the question I'd asked myself many times during this war, and many more times since it ended. When would I be able to put the war behind me? When would I be able to forget it? And I knew now that the answer was simple. Never. I never would. Some things end. But war never does.

Flight or fight? What kind of pathetically damaged animal decides on...neither?