Jeffrey Eugenides Quote

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest o...

When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in the face of trauma, but the additional s...

Denial forces victims to retreat in lifeless existence, dieing in the shadows of buried trauma and painful memories.

Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way, fo...

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

Those who were molested or beaten as children or teenagers might later be vulnerable to sexual abuse or violence, because their natural impulses to protect themselves and protest (physical and verbal)...

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay

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 ca...

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone

Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.