Quotes About Trauma

Seawoll's people would provide containment in case things went pear-shaped, while Dr Walid stood by with a mobile trauma team to help any poor bastard who had the bad luck to have their face fall off.

The trauma was perpetual when you were left in it alone.

It was as though it had already happened; predicting it felt like recalling a traumatic event.

I also knew that because he was safely on the right side, the strongest side, he would never understand what it was like to live with seven corpses in your dreams, to live with women eaten by ringworm, or children bursting with stomach worms.

His mind had been unhinged by the blast of detonators, nights spent with corpses and by the superstitious incredulity of having killed so many white men.

Wars bring scars.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

People of my generation did not like very much to tell what we lived through during the Khmer Rouge regime.

People who have had severe childhood traumas lack the ability to regulate emotions and, as a result, gravitate toward whatever primitive means they can come up with.

I was very close to having my whole leg amputated. It was a life-altering event. It took years of rehab.

When we go through being rejected and abandoned like I did as a kid, you have a lot of fear and anxiety issues that you didn't even know that's what it was defined as. You live your life a lot of times living with the ghost of fear.

Abusive relationships go on and on. You're in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.

As a child, I grew up in fear. When I was four, all my other relatives were deported to the countryside, having to leave most of their personal belongings behind.

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

Because of my experience with the Holocaust, I don't like to lose friends.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.

I had horrible experiences in Hollywood.

One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world.

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

For me, 'The Haunting of Hill House' is a series about life after a haunting, what happens after the credits roll in most horror films.