Top 35 Trauma Memories Quotes
#1. I was survivor of childhood sexual abuse in therapy for dissociated trauma memories.
Jeanne McElvaney
#2. Dissociated trauma memories are not attached to other memories by association. These memories go directly to the unconscious as a biological response separates awareness from consciousness. It's a natural, protective occurrence and it happens without will.
Jeanne McElvaney
#3. Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
Lynette Gould
#4. This [June's] account poignantly illustrates many of the multi- faceted, complex, and contradictory processes contained in participants' stories.
Norma Jean Profitt
#5. Time, the thing we can't beat back ... Yet, time is also what it takes to heal, what it takes for certain memory cells to die.
Maybe time doesn't heal. Maybe it doesn't even pass. We pass through time, and come out stunned, so rage, and memory, are blurred.
Kiana Davenport
#6. There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.
James Carl Nelson
#7. I was not abandoned as a child. I left.
Dane Cook
#8. Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
Aphrodite Matsakis
#9. The signs of good health are an intellect which is free from inhibition and arrogance, a heart which is full of compassion is healthy, a confusion-free mind, a trauma-free memory and a sorrow-free soul.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#11. 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
#12. Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.
Frances Mayes
#13. Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up
Wounds when the balsam could not, and without
The aid of salves:
to think hath been a cure.
For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force
Of mere imagination.
William Cartwright
#15. He was seven years old the summer that his life ended. He'd always felt like his life was taken the moment that truck rammed into his father and sister. Or at least, the life he would have had was ended before it even began.
Melodie Ramone
#16. The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.
Samuel Armen
#17. Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They're the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere.
Tess Gerritsen
#18. I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I'm disgusting. I can't play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates.
Andrea Pirlo
#19. And trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.
Dan Brown
#20. 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
#21. Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood.
Glenn Schiraldi
#22. 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
#23. Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the strengths you get from taking on your buried memories does not show up in your life until long after the resolution has been achieved.
Renee Fredrickson
#24. The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
Bill Crawford
#25. Since her time in the necromancer's clutches, she was still recovering lost memories from the quicksand of her mind. They'd drop like nuclear bombs, freezing her at the worst time as visuals which should've stayed forever buried bubbled to the surface.
Katherine McIntyre
#26. Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin
#27. Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.
Han Kang
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#31. How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.
John Webster
#32. Memories can be hard to forget and painful to remember that those who hate us now once loved us.
Auliq Ice
#33. I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.
Leos Carax
#34. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.
Judith Lewis Herman
#35. 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
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