Quotes about Traumatic experiences

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A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, a — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to fi — David L. Calof
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
Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusiv — David L. Calof, The Couple Who Became Each Other: Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist
...some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any psychiatric diagnos — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
...the heart is a muscle like any other. Tearing it down is the only way to make it stronger. — Sarah Skilton, Bruised
I had built such a wall between my experiences and how I felt about those experiences that I was incapable of reliving b — Sarah Hackley, Women Will Save the World
To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the dev — Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, t — Chrystine Oksana, Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse
Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life — Lynette Gould, Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse
I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,Children dying in the road,Crawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then c — Roman Payne
The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside — Michele Rosenthal, Before the World Intruded
Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through. — Wendy Hoffman, The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir about Electricity and Mind Control
The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, — David Brooks
It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come th — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Blame is a Defense Against PowerlessnessBetrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are lik — Sandra Lee Dennis
Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal an — Lynette Gould, Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse
When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says. — Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
There is something about being loved and protected by a parent (or guardian) knowing that I can be loved for who I am, n — Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay t — Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex