Quotes about Abuse survivors

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Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with chil — Marlene Steinberg, Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV (R) Dissociative Disorders (Scid-D)
Dissociation, a form of hypnotic trance, helps children survive the abuse…The abuse takes on a dream-like, surreal quali — Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
This isn't normal. This isn't how normal people think. Fuck off, world- what the hell is normal anyway? — Elizabeth Haynes, Into the Darkest Corner
As I discussed in the previous chapter, attachment researchers have shown that our earliest caregivers don't only feed u — Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
One must consider that small children are virtually incapable of making much impact on their world. No matter what path — Sarah E. Olson
Survivors are often good at both resolving and generating crisis. While this capacity to handle crisis can make you a go — Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
You’re too sensitive’ victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive — Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
Christy isn’t a case, he’s a person. — C. Kennedy, Ómorphi
Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses a — Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousnes — Carolyn Spring, Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
Without trauma-informed treatment, traumatized clients may not respond optimally and they may even be re-traumatized by — Bethany Brand
As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtuall — Aphrodite Matsakis, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Healthy people understand that others have the capacity to choose to end relationships and it serves as motivation for t — Wendy J. Mahill, Growing a Passionate Heart
Shame evokes anxiety about what will happen if someone really knows is, but, because it is impossible to for anxiety and — Wendy J. Mahill, Growing a Passionate Heart
I am continuously struck by how frequently the various thought processes of the inner critic trigger overwhelming emotio — Pete Walker
The more we get attached to any relationship, the more we lose the grip on our emotional freedom. — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it. — Laurie Matthew, Behind Enemy Lines
Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the ways we busied oursel — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
When faced with choosing between attributing their pain to “being crazy” and having had abusive parents, clients will ch — Lisa Ferentz, Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician's Guide
The fear of abandonment forced me to comply as a child, but I’m not forced to comply anymore. The key people in my life — Christina Enevoldsen, The Rescued Soul: The Writing Journey for the Healing of Incest and Family Betrayal