Posttraumatic Stress Quotes

#1. Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.

Janine Di Giovanni

#2. Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

Stephanie S. Covington

#3. Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment (Brett, 1996; Ross, 2000).

Rachel E. Goldsmith

#4. In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#5. After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

Judith Lewis Herman

#6. Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#7. Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your strength, because you have survived!

Michel Templet

#8. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Asa Don Brown

#9. In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Jan Karon

#10. Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#11. Each person processes information in a particular style.

Andrew L.

#12. We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

J. C. Watts

#13. Yes, the princess you were expecting put on her armor and left to kill the dragon. So sorry.

Ilona Andrews

#14. In the culture people talk about trauma as an event that happened a long time ago. But what trauma is, is the imprints that event has left on your mind and in your sensations... the discomfort you feel and the agitation you feel and the rage and the helplessness you feel right now.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#15. The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").

Brian Luke Seaward

#16. The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again - or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways.

Michele Rosenthal

#17. The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

Frank M. Ochberg

#18. I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

Lars Onsager

#19. Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

S. Kelley Harrell

#20. Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

Dave Barry

#21. A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

Ian Fleming

#22. Justice by Attrition turns courthouses like this giant complex on Schermerhorn Street into huge fun houses of unreasonableness and mindless punishment, where you can peek into just about any room and find someone absolutely beside himself with disbelief over what is happening to him.

Matt Taibbi

#23. Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#24. You have no need to worry about me being attracted to you." She moistened her lips. "Because I'm not."

Oh yeah? Well, then he wasn't attracted to her either. "Fantastic. I'm still not taking you.

Cindy Roland Anderson

#25. In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.

Stana Katic

#26. Our work calls on us to confront, with our patients and within ourselves, extraordinary human experiences. This confrontation is profoundly humbling in that at all times these experiences challenge the limits of our humanity and our view of the world...

John P. Wilson

#27. Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28. It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself (p. 5)

Cathy Caruth

#29. As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#30. Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#31. The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn't who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.

Robert Koger

#32. But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Thomas Keneally

#33. Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)

Pierre Janet