Quotes About Trauma

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the love of a good man.

You think you know the answer, you're going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there's any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened.

When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.

My brother slaughtered my family when I was seven. My mom, two sisters, gone: bang bang, chop chop, choke choke.

But the sight of it actually does something to you, makes you less human. Like watching a rape and saying nothing.

I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper's screams. I am haunted by the Lady's laughter.

There is no time in the limbic system. Because of this our past often takes us over without warning and we relive it in ways that can be very troublesome. The

Sir U__ fell down from a speeding train, Which did some damage to his brain, And after that he did not know How to pronounce the letter O.

He struck her so hard he broke her ribs and gave her scars for life.

masked man beats her with the bottle, which doesn't break, thank God. But then he rips off her panties and rapes her with it. Both holes. Serious trauma, but mostly in the back.

Their parents had killed multiple people. They'd done the most cruel and vile things anyone could do to another person. And so much of it had happened right before their eyes.

I think as a kid I depended on her, her being my mom, I don't think I ever thought I had any other options but to live with her. As an adult I kick myself for not doing something to help myself back then. My mother could show affection and say kind words when she wanted to . . . she would abuse me, then the very next day hug me or tell me how I was her baby and she loved me blah, blah. I think it worked like any abusive relationship

Victims of abuse can still love the monster. This ambivalent loyalty might just be the predator's ultimate form of damage.

Nothing so terrible can be forgotten. But all she wanted—all the others had wanted—was a chance to get on with their own lives. They deserved and hoped for a chance at being normal. But that was never to be, though in time the headlines would shrink, the interest would ebb. But it could not be completely disregarded. There was always the angle. Always and forever.

Thinking and dreaming of what happened is a far different experience than giving voice to events that haunt you. You cry when you tell someone something. You shake. You get sick. You seek comfort. When you don't speak about it and just think it, you don't fall apart.

horrible scenes with me before and seemed okay. I would ask him, but I don't want to see another

Her butt was all bloody.

She used to chop up bits of glass and put them in the bottom of [the kids'] boots and shoes

It's funny how the most traumatic events that happen to you are always there behind a sometimes-impenetrable memory.

Sami told her about the abuse that had been going on. All that she'd missed. How Tori was locked in a dog kennel and sprayed with a hose. The nudity. The withholding of food. And Ron Woodworth. "She did the same thing to Kathy, Nikki.

She knows that what happened to her has altered her life in ways that are invisible, but though she chooses to think the best of people, she can't do that when it comes to her parents.

The truth is surviving childhood trauma isn't the same thing as living.