Trauma Quotes - Page 3

• The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.

  Daphne Gottlieb

  Pregnancy, Divorce, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Future, Responsibility, Destiny

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• An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

  Alice Miller

  May, Heal, Wounds

  Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.226, Macmillan

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• Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

  Deborah Norville

  Grateful, People, May

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• The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Relationship, Change

  "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog". Book by Bruce D. Perry, 2006.

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• Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

  Peter A. Levine

  Earth, Ptsd, Hell

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• The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.

  Sigmund Freud

  Past, Rome, Cities

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I think that everyone who is going to really move up has got to go through some trauma...I'm much more respected in my new job, than I was as the head of the Warner Group, because I survived being thrown out the window, going splat on the concrete, and walking.

  Doug Morris

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

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• Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

  Richard Bentall

  Children, Childhood, Helping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

  Sloane Crosley

  Numbers, Healthy, Records

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.67, Penguin

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• Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from those who regarded us as villains. There was no murderer to catch, no Strigoi trauma to overcome. There was just him and me and the feelings that had burned between us for so long.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Long, Feelings

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.238, Penguin

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• There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

  Michael Helm

  People, Anxiety, Events

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes sense, and so I wrote about this character's last day on the job, how after spending 15 years pretending to be a rabbi, he'd in effect become a rabbi.

  Tod Goldberg

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The first reaction to trauma is denial, then comes anger and finally, acceptance. I think the US is still between denial and anger, and I hope we will reach acceptance because almost perversely, right now, only the US has the technology that is needed for global economic change.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Acceptance, Thinking, Technology

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I believe if my opponent [Hillary Clinton] should win this race, which I truly don't think will happen, we will have a Second Amendment which will be a very, very small replica of what it is right now. But I feel that it's absolutely important that we uphold, because of the fact that it is under such trauma.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

  Jenny Lawson

  Choices, Childhood, Liquor Stores

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened”, p.16, Penguin

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• We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.

  Christian Boltanski

  Artist, People, Way

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with the pain and trauma, learn to cope on some level, you know? But you can never undo death, and even if you think they deserve it, killing doesn’t take away your pain, just puts you on dangerous ground that can collapse out from beneath you at any time.

  Taylor Stevens

  Pain, Real, Feel Better

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• A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

  Lenore Terr

  Whole Life, Remembered, Whole

  Lenore Terr (2008). “Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories Lost and Found”, p.13, Basic Books

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• Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Healing, Helping Others, Helping Someone

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• Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  "Only Words". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1993.

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• One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

  Hugh Mackay

  Choices, Feelings, Trying

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• Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the cause and effect of violent activity. It's not a Donald Duck situation where he get a brick in the back of the head and gets up and walks away in the next frame. Mine have violence which keeps Donald Duck in the hospital for six months and creates a trauma which he will remember for the rest of his life.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Ducks, Differences

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, People, Childhood

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Reality, Racism, Citizens

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