Quotes About Trauma

Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.

As a kid, I had nightmares about Freddy Krueger just from the trailers on TV!

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

And even now the families of the wounded men and of the mentally broken and those who never were able to readjust themselves are still suffering and still paying. Picture of a WW1 soldier whose jaw was shot

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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

Para qualquer um que experimentou brutalidade deliberada, a menor gentileza se torna para sempre um choque depois.

The wounds you can't see are the worst.

Kalief Browder was arrested in 2010 at age sixteen for stealing a backpack and then held for three years without a trial on Rikers Island. During his time on Rikers, Kalief was beaten by both guards and inmates, and he spent an inconceivable two years in solitary confinement before his case was finally dismissed in 2013.

Uncomplicated birth seems to be the blueprint for coping with all later difficult situations in life. Various complications, such as prolonged and debilitating delivery, the use of forceps, or heavy anesthesia appear to be correlated to specific problems in dealing with future projects of all kinds. The same is true for induced birth, premature delivery, and Caesarean section.

Am liebsten hätte sie geschrien oder mit den Fäusten getobt, sich freizumachen von dem Grauen dieser Erinnerung, die fest wie ein Angelhaken in ihrem Gehirn saß, dieses wüste Gesicht mit seinem höhnischen Lachen, dieser Dunst von Gemeinheit, der aufstieg vom schlechten Atem der Proletarierin, dieser wüste Mund, der voll Haß ihr hart bis ins Gesicht die niedrigen Worte gespien, und die gehobene rote Faust, mit der sie ihr gedroht hatte.

fingernails were torn out with pliers.

if the medicine we need is relationship, what if we surrendered to relationship with our trauma, with our inheritances, with our ancestors, with our bullshit, with our fears so that we could begin to make possible relationship with one another? what happens when we be with our inheritances, when we bow to them, when we thank them, when we bear witness to them, when we eulogize them, and then when we send them on their way?

Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.

Winnicott's understanding of the way experience can become traumatizing is quite different from Freud's. Trauma for Winnicott is not just the introduction of something dramatically negative, frightening, and noxious (e.g., precocious sexual stimulation); it is most fundamentally the failure to sustain something positive—the necessary conditions for healthy psychic development. Thus

The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because

victims of sexual abuse during childhood often suffered from stunted growth. Disrupted psychological growth affected physical growth.

traumas and depravities of childhood manifesting themselves in adulthood, often in repetitive behavior.

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Just so you know, I'm guessing she had no doubt about whether she was raped, okay, McGee? Her hesitation was most likely about making a report to a department and officers who don't give a shit and don't view rape as much of a crime.

The dark side of the moon was where people lived who had been through what Cindy Carpenter had just been through. Where a few dark hours changed everything about every hour that would come after. The place that only the people who had been through it understood. Life was never the same.

It was difficult work. Bosch never got accustomed to viewing crime scenes. He had been to hundreds of them and seen the result of human inhumanity too many times to count. He always thought that if he got used to it, then he had lost something inside that was needed to do the job right. You had to have an emotional response. It was that response that lit the match that started the fire of relentlessness.