Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Quotes
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“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”
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“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She must find a way to preserve a sense of trust in people who are untrustworthy, safety in a situation that is unsafe, control in a situation that is terrifyingly unpredictable, power in a situation of helplessness. Unable to care for or protect herself, she must compensate for the failures of adult care and protection with the only means at her disposal, an immature system of psychological defenses.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Often it isn鈥檛 the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.”
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”
― The Throat
― The Throat

“First, the physiological symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder have been brought within manageable limits. Second, the person is able to bear the feelings associated with traumatic memories. Third, the person has authority over her memories; she can elect both to remember the trauma and to put memory aside. Fourth, the memory of the traumatic event is a coherent narrative, linked with feeling. Fifth, the person's damaged self-esteem has been restored. Sixth, the person's important relationships have been reestablished. Seventh and finally, the person has reconstructed a coherent system of meaning and belief that encompasses the story of trauma.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world 鈥 鈥淟ife is good,鈥 鈥淚鈥檓 safe,鈥 鈥淧eople are kind,鈥 鈥淚 can trust others,鈥 鈥淭he future is likely to be good鈥 鈥 and replaces them with feelings like 鈥淭he world is dangerous,鈥 鈥淚 can鈥檛 win,鈥 鈥淚 can鈥檛 trust other people,鈥 or 鈥淭here鈥檚 no hope.”
― Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies
― Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies
“She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her 鈥 but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.”
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“Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your strength, because you have survived!”
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“Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.”
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“In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.”
― Home to Holly Springs
― Home to Holly Springs

“The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn鈥檛 who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.”
― Death's Revenge
― Death's Revenge
“In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.”
― Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Complete Treatment Guide
― Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Complete Treatment Guide
“Being trauma informed must include respecting and honouring the fact that what is learned from the experience of trauma is a kind of knowledge, in the same way that what we learn about trauma is knowledge. In both cases, what is known is contextual and deeply nuanced.”
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“traumatic diagnoses such as post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociative identity disorder describe a shared array of human responses to degradation and dehumanization (Good & Hinton, 2016; Ross, 2011)”
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“We find ways of protecting ourselves, of shifting blame, of burying emotions until the dam bursts and the weight of guilt and regret acts as an anchor, pulling us under. And it鈥檚 at that point we make the decision, the choice, to simply give in and allow that weight to become the one thing above all else that defines us.”
― Red Lights
― Red Lights
“I'm a writer. I was just diagnosed with PTSD. This unfortunate diagnosis, I assure you will not stop me.”
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“The former marine, David J Morris, author of a book on post traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more common and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than combat veterans.”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“The scene looked somehow divorced from reality, although reality, he knew, could at times be terribly unreal.”
― Men Without Women
― Men Without Women
“Malgr茅 les sympt么mes qui continuaient 脿 la secouer - apathie, tremblements, acc猫s de panique soudains et inexpliqu茅s -, Andr茅a avait du mal 脿 le croire. Elle n'茅tait pas un soldat. Elle n'avait rien v茅cu de v茅ritablement traumatique.
- Peut-锚tre que si, a insist茅 le m茅decin.
La r茅p茅tition de stress de moindre intensit茅 semble avoir les m锚mes effets qu'un seul gros traumatisme. C'est comme une bo卯te o霉 l'on amoncelle des tas d'exp茅riences difficiles, et 脿 un moment, la bo卯te est pleine et tout d茅borde.”
― Coltan Song
- Peut-锚tre que si, a insist茅 le m茅decin.
La r茅p茅tition de stress de moindre intensit茅 semble avoir les m锚mes effets qu'un seul gros traumatisme. C'est comme une bo卯te o霉 l'on amoncelle des tas d'exp茅riences difficiles, et 脿 un moment, la bo卯te est pleine et tout d茅borde.”
― Coltan Song

“The world was not a place she could enjoy like any normal child; it lacked excitement and stimulation for her. She had been deadened to everything because of what she had suffered. It was heartbreaking.”
― Damaged
― Damaged

“Why are many police officers corrupt? For some of them, it is coming from the long-term side effects of their risky and stressful job.”
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“Cumulative Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) is one of the many occupational hazards for police officers.”
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“There was an essential me that no abuse could ever harm. The me before I felt that I had to be perfect. The me before I felt shame. The me that wanted to be kind, not as a distraction of what was happening to me, but simply because it was the purest expression of love I knew. All of that was always within me. That was what I had to remember.”
― The Tell: A Memoir
― The Tell: A Memoir
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