Quotes About Symptoms
Many traumatologists see attachment disorder as one of the key symptoms of Complex PTSD.
~ Unknown
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The symptoms of trauma can be stable, that is, ever-present. They can also be unstable, meaning that they can come and go and be triggered by stress. Or they can remain hidden for decades and suddenly surface. Usually, symptoms do not occur individually, but come in groups. They often grow increasingly complex over time, becoming less and less connected with the original trauma experience.
~ Peter A. Levine
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Trauma has become so commonplace that most people don't even recognize its presence. It affects everyone. Each of us has had a traumatic experience at some point in our lives, regardless of whether it left us with an obvious case of post-traumatic stress. Because trauma symptoms can remain hidden for years after a triggering event, some of us who have been traumatized are not yet symptomatic.
~ Peter A. Levine
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Re-enactments may be played out in intimate relationships, work situations, repetitive accidents or mishaps, and in other seemingly random events. They may also appear in the form of bodily symptoms or psychosomatic diseases. Children who have had a traumatic experience will often repeatedly recreate it in their play. As adults, we are often compelled to re-enact our early traumas in our daily lives. The mechanism is similar regardless of the individual's age.
~ Peter A. Levine
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This shows up as symptoms of alexithymia (the inability to describe or elaborate feelings due to a deficiency in emotional awareness), depression and somatization.
~ Peter A. Levine
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The above-mentioned symptoms of fullness and pressure in the ears may increase to severe headache; great nervous irritability, vertigo, and even sickness may also occur.
~ Unknown
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while the severer symptoms of the same class, such as vomiting, and vertigo, &c, are to be associated with intra-auricular pressure (that is, pressure upon the labyrinth fluid, or on the auditory nerve-expansion itself), in a manner already explained.
~ Unknown
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One needs to realize that the symptoms of vital depression are often not spontaneously mentioned ââ'¬Â¦ They are often concealed by other symptoms which may seem to be more severe. They may not come to the patient's mind even with questioning. Patients admit to these symptoms only as the links of an integral whole in a dialogue that is free and comprehensible.
~ Peter D. Kramer
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