Top 59 Trauma Ptsd Quotes
#2. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.
Judith Lewis Herman
#3. Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
S. Kelley Harrell
#4. 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
#5. Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#6. 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
#7. It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn't know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn't see?
Matt Haig
#8. Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.
Carolyn Spring
#9. Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.
Asa Don Brown
#10. Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific ...
Asa Don Brown
#11. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.
Asa Don Brown
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.
David Brooks
#15. Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.
Stephanie S. Covington
#16. Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.
Anna Funder
#17. When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#18. Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
Aphrodite Matsakis
#19. Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
Judith Lewis Herman
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed - they're to be acknowledged.
Jennifer Lane
#23. 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
#24. Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," originated from a sense of soul loss.
S. Kelley Harrell
#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. It [treating trauma] may even cause you to reconsider some of your previous views of the world and to revise your sociopolitical perspectives.
Aphrodite Matsakis
#27. 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
#29. This [June's] account poignantly illustrates many of the multi- faceted, complex, and contradictory processes contained in participants' stories.
Norma Jean Profitt
#30. The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
Frank M. Ochberg
#31. 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
#32. 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
#34. 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
#35. ... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous things which made him so. The iron forged on the anvil cannot be blamed for the hammer...
Terry Pratchett
#36. 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
#37. Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...
Asa Don Brown
#39. 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
#40. The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
Judith Lewis Herman
#42. The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.
James Garbarino
#43. I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don't allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime - and that's OK.
Beau Taplin
#44. Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.
Jane Leavy
#45. 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
#46. Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)
Pierre Janet
#47. I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.
Sara Novic
#48. Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.
Erin Merryn
#49. See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. 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
#51. When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.
Anna Funder
#52. Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#53. When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#54. Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework ...
Asa Don Brown
#55. We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.
Anna C. Salter
#56. Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.
Sara Novic
#57. Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.
Stephanie S. Covington
#58. 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
#59. Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.
Stephanie S. Covington
