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.
We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.
A freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it's difficult for people to understand that this is really su...
In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing the subject to act bey...
Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.
Deep connection is the antidote to madness.
a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the fro...
The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of t...
I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find the cure. But of course there was no reasonable why, at least not in the present. I was awash in a...
En los momentos más terribles de la vida solemos caer en una suerte de irresponsabilidad protectora y en vez de pensar en lo que nos ocurre dirigimos la atención a trivialidades.
It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.
Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way of looking at the world, taken for granted by many in the Edwardian age,...
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail.
Where would we be without our painful childhoods?
The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
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