Quotes About Psychology

A traumatised person does not remember the trauma, but experiences it over and over again.

Early people are anxious, on-time people are obsessive compulsive, and late people are hostile, or passively-aggressively hostile.

What we can't bear to know or feel, we often find a way to hide from ourselves, and hide well.

He's like a human bomb with dozens of trip wires. Some of them I can see, but most are deeply inside him.

If you put frightening things into a picture then they can't harm you. If fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

It's alot harder than you'd think to scar a kid for life.

Es así. El ser humano se acostumbra a todo. Si todos los días le dan una cucharada de mierda, primero hace arqueadas, después él mismo pide ansiosamente su cucharada de mierda y hace trampas para comer dos cucharadas y no una sola.

The parent of a child, as Deborah Tannen has written, has the power not only to create the world the child lives in but the ability to dictate how that world is to be interpreted. Seen from that point of view, one of the lasting and important legacies of a mean mother is a wellspring of self-doubt. The other, explained by adaptive behavior, is a need to replicate the relationship she has to her mother with other people, regardless of how unhappy it makes her.

In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins.

Why are people so fucked up?" I asked "Maybe you do need college, Poiter," Everett said. "You want to know why people are so fucked up? Son, that's about the only question I can answer with even a small measure of authority. It's because they're people. People, my friend, are worse than anybody.

when your own goddamn brain starts fucking with you, you're not just fucked up a little bit, you're totally fucked up.

Well-adjusted has come to mean unaffected. – Theodore Rubin

person injures and exhausts himself in compulsive attempts to avoid a disavowed feeling, and actually becomes more stuck

repression of one end of the emotional continuum often leads to a repression of the whole continuum, and the person becomes emotionally deadened.

As I am writing this, my son's friend synchronistically tells him: "This Lego creature I made spreads brain attack and eats away at the person." I marvel at this synchronicity and think: "What a fitting image for the trauma-inducing parent".

Another clue that we are in a flashback occurs when we notice that our emotional reactions are out of proportion to what has triggered them.

El primero, nuestros padres a menudo nos educaron de maneras que replicaron ciegamente la manera en que ellos fueron educados. Y segundo, a menudo fueron apoyados en su educación disfuncional por las normas y valores sociales de sus tiempos.

Through such neglect the child's consciousness eventually becomes overwhelmed with the processes of drasticizing and catastrophizing.

First, the good news about Cptsd. It is a learned set of responses, and a failure to complete numerous important developmental tasks. This means that it is environmentally, not genetically, caused. In other words, unlike most of the diagnoses it is confused with, it is neither inborn nor characterological. As such, it is learned. It is not inscribed in your DNA. It is a disorder caused by nurture [or rather the lack of it] not nature.

Guilt is sometimes camouflaged fear

The Tao of Fully Feeling, and it was written as an appeal to the general public to understand the consequences of trying to sanitize one's emotions.

The survivor may, seemingly without reason, visualize someone being abusive.

Some survivors have confidence but not self-esteem.

This appears to be a mechanism of dissociation, and in this instance, it rendered my client amnesiac of my high regard for our work together. I