Quotes About Trauma

Child cases haunted you. They hollowed you out and scarred you. There was no bulletproof vest thick enough to stop you from being pierced. Child cases left you knowing the world was full of lost light.

drugged a girl and raped her—

He vomited again. There was blood everywhere.

I hadn't been anywhere, I'd performed half an act; the war only had one way of coming to take your pain away quickly.

they could take you off shuddering in your sleep. No one who heard it was able to smile that bitter, secret survivor's smile that was the reflex to almost all news of disaster. It was too awful even for that.

I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Positive self-talk, and visualization or mental rehearsal, trained to a level of confidence and competence, may be critical to both improved performance under stress and increased resilience after a traumatic incident.

People who had post-traumatic stress disorder were considered weaklings," as one Israeli psychologist put it. Part of the job of being an Israeli Jew was to at least pretend to forget the unforgettable.

Emotional trauma of the living may overwhelm their inner minds to such an extent that their mental capabilities to communicate with souls are inhibited.

If a wound is great you cannot turn it into something that is spoken, it can barely be written.

I have been through and seen so many dramas and traumas and been in so many situations that I can probably interpret a few different characters.

I've never been ice skating, ever. I'm traumatized by the idea of it.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys - I jump out of my skin.

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.

Because of dissociation, many victims are able to remember the abuse only when a certain object, smell, color, scene, or experience triggers a sudden, severe reaction. During a flashback one seems to see, feel, hear, smell, or taste something from the past as if it were actually happening in the present. In a visual flashback, you actually see the scene of your abuse, or you may see an object or image that reminds you or is symbolic of your abuse.

Ninety percent of people who lose smell through head injury never get the sense back; a smaller proportion, about 70 percent, who lose smell through infections suffer permanent loss.

Phineas Gage was packing dynamite into a rock and it exploded prematurely

It's heartbreaking to see how some people go through their entire lives held captive by debilitating fears. When you peel back all the layers of self-protection that cover up these destructive fears, you'll often find one or two significant events at the core. These events may not even seem all that terrifying to the casual observer, but they were just scary enough to start tripping the dominoes, causing the person to erect walls of avoidance.

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.