Top 51 Trauma Child Quotes
#1. The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.
Stefan Molyneux
#2. The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4
Judith Lewis Herman
#3. Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.
Asa Don Brown
#4. What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self.
John Bowlby
#5. I was not abandoned as a child. I left.
Dane Cook
#6. The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
Stefan Molyneux
#7. Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
Judith Lewis Herman
#8. Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.
Daniel Mackler
#9. 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
#10. Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, the happiness, and the other who stood aside and watched with a disinterested ironic eye.
P.D. James
#11. If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
Stefan Molyneux
#12. Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.
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Marilyn Van Derbur
#13. I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.
Adeline Yen Mah
#14. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.
Asa Don Brown
#15. 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
#16. We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
Alice Miller
#17. The greater a child's terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.
Nathaniel Branden
#18. Harvard pediatricians have studied the effect that childhood trauma has on the mind. In addition to later negative health consequences, the doctors found that constant stress can actually change the chemistry of a child's brain. Stress, after
J.D. Vance
#19. We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
Stefan Molyneux
#20. The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
Stefan Molyneux
#21. The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.
Steven Franssen
#22. Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.
Asa Don Brown
#23. Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.
Stefan Molyneux
#24. A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.
Asa Don Brown
#25. Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.
Asa Don Brown
#26. One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
Stefan Molyneux
#27. The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.
Stefan Molyneux
#28. We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.
Stefan Molyneux
#29. You may experience waves of disbelief after each memory you retrieve. Whether as a phase or waves, the disbelief is usually accompanied by massive self-hate and guilt. 'How can I even think such a thing? I must really be warped,' you tell yourself.
Renee Fredrickson
#30. The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.
James Garbarino
#31. Mrs O'Leary said, 'Tis the child I feel sorry for', and all the people looked up and saw me, so I looked especially sad, I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.
Sue Townsend
#32. The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
Bruce D. Perry
#33. Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds - staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.
Haruki Murakami
#34. Where does repressed pain and rage go in a body? Does the wound of daughter turn to something else if left unattended? Does it bloom in the belly like an anti-child, like an organic mass made of emotions that didn't have anywhere to go? How do we name the pain of rage in a woman? Mother?
Lidia Yuknavitch
#35. A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ...
Asa Don Brown
#36. Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.
Erin Merryn
#37. The child is right," she announced firmly.
Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong.
Mary Norton
#38. Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
Stefan Molyneux
#39. The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.
Warwick Middleton
#40. I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.
Karen Marshall
#41. Tiger Mother felt like reliving a childhood trauma; The Drama of the Gifted Child felt like going through the therapy to cure it.
William Deresiewicz
#42. Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'... Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.
Laura Davis
#43. 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
#45. The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality
Robert W. Firestone
#46. Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
Stefan Molyneux
#47. Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.
Asa Don Brown
#48. It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.
Judith Lewis Herman
#49. 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
#51. She is at a crossroads: a child's violent will to survive lodged in her chest where her heart should be, but an utter indifference along with it.
Lidia Yuknavitch
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