Quotes about Trauma survivors

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The rationale seems to be that we keep people as victims by validating them, empathizing with them, and fighting alongsi — Kyrian Lyndon
Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalize — Marlene Steinberg
If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, — Marilyn Van Derbur, Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned From Ultimate Betrayals And Unconditional Love
Some survivors can be wary of most people, yet blinded by compassion toward fellow survivors or others who suffer — or w — Aphrodite Matsakis, Loving Someone with PTSD: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Connecting with Your Partner after Trauma
The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our mind — Dee Brown, Breaking Passive-Aggressive Cycles
Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnes — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSEThe Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994"Extending these local figu — Lloyd DeMause
Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, — Joan Coleman, Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
When preparing for Book One, I talked to a couple of psychiatrists about psychosomatic phenomena, neuroses and dissociat — Les Murray, Fredy Neptune
Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to dea — David J. Morris, The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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
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
TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run out of nothings to tell them. You — nikitta gill
 “So how’d you do it? How did you get to where you aren’t scared all the freaking time?”Erin’s smile drooped a little, t — Daniel Abraham, Unfettered
We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive from living a w — Darlene Ouimet
Unspeakable feelings need to find expression in words. However... verbalization of very intense feelings may be a diffic — James A. Chu, Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail. — Toni Bernhard
Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are cau — American Psychological Association, APA Dictionary of Psychology
They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay — Dalton Trumbo