Top Traumatic Experiences Quotes

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.

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.

Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)

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...

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.