Quotes About Posttraumatic

#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. The stick-thin thing, I'm kind of just like, 'Not gonna do it' and 'I couldn't.'

Jordin Sparks

#3. 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

#4. I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Billy Idol

#5. 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

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

Asa Don Brown

#7. 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

#8. What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

Peg Bracken

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

Stephanie S. Covington

#10. 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

#11. I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.

Freddie Hubbard

#13. Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.

Haskell Wexler

#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. Time demonstrates that Paradise is not cheap and that Hell is not futile.

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Frank M. Ochberg

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

Victor LaValle

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

S. Kelley Harrell

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

Ian Fleming

#24. By His words and His example, Christ has shown us how to draw closer to Him.

Henry B. Eyring

#25. Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#26. It was both terrifying and glorious in it's intensity. It was love.

Melissa Landers

#27. I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

Iggy Pop

#28. 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

#29. If he had loved her he would have pursued her.

Elisabeth Elliot

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Pierre Janet