Quotes About Trauma

In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand. I am shaken but fortunate to be alive.

Subconcussive injuries are brain injuries on top of unrecovered brain injuries.

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

I saw the bombs, and, like a kid, I looked back at them. Instantly there was fire everywhere.

When the brain gets an injury, the body just instinctively responds and it almost shuts everything else down.

I don't think X-23's past is the most interesting thing about her, but it's not like she can escape it, either.

Abuse isn't just physical or…or sexual, you know." I felt my throat getting tight but I refused to let my pain show on my face. "There is such a thing as mental and emotional abuse too.

Slavery is back but never went away

As pessoas pensam que, depois de ser estuprada, você é só uma vítima', diz Mukunilwa. '[...] a vida continua depois do estupro. O estupro não é o fim. Não é uma identidade imutável.

About violence, what it feels like to be nothing to someone else. What it feels like to be a consequence of someone else's dissociated rage, disconnected fury.

Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged?

Precisamos que as pessoas tentem imaginar de verdade – de uma vez por todas – como é ter seu corpo invadido, sua mente despedaçada, sua alma estilhaçada.

My ears were mostly gone from the concussion of the explosives and shotguns,

Europe,' Barnett writes, 'moved on from the Second World War and Britain didn't.' One might go so far as to say that England never got over winning the war.

Well, they set spiders and snakes on me for a bit and blew me up and there was this really scary cake, but it's mostly all right now, I think. Except I don't ever want any more cake. Look!

It is all too apparent: wounds never heal, but rather, in a torpid state deep inside the medial temporal lobe of the brain, grief waits for fresh release.

black welts.

Many among us were abused or neglected as children, experienced trauma or violence, or report chronic illness

I'm not sure a professional psychologist would agree, but something in me understands that until we deal with our most traumatic traumas, there's a part of us that stays at the age at which we encountered them.

Clients who have experienced traumatic or painful experiences around money are often unaware of the ways in which their past experiences cloud their future.

Clients who have experienced traumatic or painful experiences around money are often unaware of the ways in which their past experiences cloud their future. They often think they just don't understand money and need more technical information on the planning process.

The only thing worse than remembering the past is the fear of reliving it.

More than anything in this world, trauma has been the source behind the greatest acts of transformation and creativity.

In life, you can forgive yourself for a lot, but for reasons that made very little rational sense, it is very hard to forgive yourself for surviving.