Quotes About Complex Trauma

#1. 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

#2. [God] can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your life.

Billy Graham

#3. Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.

Judith Lewis Herman

#4. Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature's elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled.

Shannon A. Thompson

#5. Most conversations drift. You need to steer. Assume the task of cutting boring threads of conversation and of offering new options. Encourage people to tell stories they mention in passing. Don't wait to be invited into a group, introduce yourself. In short: lead.

Charlie Houpert

#6. The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

Stephen King

#7. Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

Judith Lewis Herman

#8. The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

James Mercer

#9. To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the development of that creature can be affected by hideous trauma is to attempt the impossible.

Diane Langberg

#10. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities. You don't need a history of trauma to feel self-conscious and even panicked at a party with strangers - but trauma can turn the whole world into a gathering of aliens.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#11. Too much Oil, gonna spoil YA!

(There Will Be Blood 2007 - Movie)

Deyth Banger

#12. Truth is always a delusion.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#13. This [June's] account poignantly illustrates many of the multi- faceted, complex, and contradictory processes contained in participants' stories.

Norma Jean Profitt

#14. When innocence ends, pleasure begins. Chloe Thurlow

Chloe Thurlow

#15. School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.

Sue Grafton

#16. In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.

Zainab Salbi