“ Memory repression thrives in shame, secrecy, and shock. The shame and degradation experienced during sexual assault is profound, especially for children who have no concept of what is happening to the… Renee Fredrickson
“ I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality. Rabih Alameddine
“ As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage… Bessel A. van der Kolk
“ The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip in to it; as for the red bloody meat, the steaming innards - they were being thrown onto the scraphea… Vasily Grossman
“ You could continue to repress and think about the life you could have had or you can take what you want from life and see that the world finds that person infinitely more irresistible... Roberto Hogue
“ Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed… Clarice Lispector
“ When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualist… Harold Edmund Stearns
“ Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're Britis… Matt Haig
“ My only regret is that no one told me at the beginning of my journey what I'm telling you now: there will be an end to your pain. And once you've released all those pent-up emotions, you will experien… Patricia Love
“ Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emo… Abhijit Naskar
“ The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These energy patterns are repressed but not destroyed. They are alive in our unconsci… John Bradshaw
“ Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world. Bryant McGill
“ My fiancé immediately began to look uncomfortable, but did not voice this discomfort except by a soft gurgling sound in the throat . . . The gurgling escalated, but my mother politely switched on the… Alexandra Kleeman
“ The anger response, like the fear response, is a frequent target for repression. Imagine a 6-year-old girl who is angry at her 10-year-old brother for teasing her. In response, she might make an angry… Patricia Love
“ I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful. Carl R. Rogers
“ I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't. Cora Carmack
“ Now, however open a person manages to be, there is one possibility to which he remains as closed as ever: the possibility that when he uncovers his deepest anxieties he will find hidden inside them ce… Jerome A. Miller
“ What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control. Jerome A. Miller
“ Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it. Jerome A. Miller
“ When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it. Jerome A. Miller
