Quotes About Traumatic Memories

#1. It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim's response.

David Yeung

#2. Sometimes patients may report traumatic memories of events that they have not actually experienced themselves. Van der Hart and Van der Velden (1995)

Onno Van Der Hart

#3. The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

Pitirim Sorokin

#4. Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#5. Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.

Renee Fredrickson

#6. I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality.

John McCain

#7. Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#8. I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

Jenny Lewis

#9. Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life

Lynette Gould

#10. There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.

Katie McGarry

#11. 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

#12. Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

Laura Dekker

#13. What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

Georges Clemenceau

#14. Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age.

Camille Paglia

#15. I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

Sigmund Freud

#16. I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

Frank Lampard

#17. Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

Zadie Smith

#18. 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

#19. I've learned ... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

Andy Rooney

#20. I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that.

Thomas Sangster

#21. The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

James E. Faust

#22. He was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

Alessandro Baricco