Top 45 Quotes About Traumatic Experiences
#1. Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.
Jed Diamond
#2. I guess by default we're all the ones shaking our heads at the stupidity of others until we're forced into traumatic experiences ourselves.
J.A. Redmerski
#3. and now he knew what it was like to be on the inside, caught in a web woven from your sickest fears and most traumatic experiences. There was no way to retreat from it, and no way to cut through it,
Stephen King
#4. Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.
Asa Don Brown
#5. When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy ... I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences.
Sinead O'Connor
#6. Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
Matt Lucas
#7. It's like that sometimes for people who have had traumatic experiences in their past life. It's hard to move on, to belong, in one place when you have unresolved business in another.
Amanda Gray
#8. People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.
Susan Minot
#9. It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.
Annette Bening
#10. It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.
A.C. Grayling
#11. Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place.
"The past tense", I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.
Alan Moore
#12. Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.
Asa Don Brown
#13. It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#15. Who made the law that men should die in meadows?
Who spake the word that blood should splash in lanes?
Who gave it forth that gardens should be boneyards?
Who spread the hills with flesh, and blood, and brains?
Who made the law?
Leslie Coulson
Michael Tappenden
#16. 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
#17. This book is dedicated to all who have been affected by sexual violence.
Robert Uttaro
#18. You're not the same. You're not supposed to be the same. You're supposed to be different. This isn't something you will ever forget.
Daisy Whitney
#19. Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
Lynette Gould
#20. There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.
William Manchee
#21. When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.
Steven Moffat
#22. Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
Aphrodite Matsakis
#23. Trauma stories are no more valid or noble than stories of love and heroism. Trauma stories are like black holes in space. They suck up all the light available.
Annette Vaillancourt
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay
Dalton Trumbo
#27. The heart is a muscle like any other. Tearing it down is the only way to make it stronger.
Sarah Skilton
#28. Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave? What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remains obsessed, even as our bodies move on?
Noah Hawley
#29. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
Wendy Hoffman
#30. Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)
Pierre Janet
#31. I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.
Lynne Tillman
#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 culture and heritage should stay intact and be maintained as it provides the individuals with some degree of resiliency. The effects of the trauma is what should be focused on and treated. Improving the quality of life for survivors is the focus of treatment. It is not to erase the past.
Thomas Hodge
#34. Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate from my heart and spread throughout my chest.
Theresa Braun
#35. 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
#36. The holes are slowly filling up, and despite itself the brain will work until the job is completed.
Danny Scheinmann
#38. The traumatized soul finds no rest in conditions of peace. It's forever questing for violence, for action, for the same combination of factors which gave rise to it in the first place.
Matthew S. Williams
#39. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
Diane Arbus
#40. My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.
Ishmael Beah
#41. Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human behavior. . . commonly have more psychological impact than those caused by nature.
American Psychological Association
#42. When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.
Anna Funder
#43. Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?
Kevin Wilson
#44. Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.
Jennifer Brown
#45. Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.
Lynette Gould
