Trauma Quotes - Page 9

• Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

  James Frey

  Stills, Allowing

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• Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

  Mitch Albom

  Xanax, Sadness, Our World

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• This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Believe, Emotional

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

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• ...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

  Anna Maxted

  Looks, Matter, Common

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.

  Jessica Stern

  Light, People, Feelings

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• It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

  Mark Millar

  Loneliness, Perfect, Parent

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• Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta) Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and puppies. Boy Scouts really do help old ladies cross the street without mugging them and no one ever ignores a trauma victim’s screams. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Rainbow, People

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• Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for hours, and have little people pounding in your head with hammers, it is sheer bliss just to eat a piece of toast, walk outside without getting dizzy, and breathe fresh air. Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John

  J.R. Ward

  Healing, Doors, Slam

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• The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

  Taylor Swift

  Drama, Mirrors, Repeats

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• The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must understand the relationship of enslaved people to Africa, to historical trauma, and their central role in food production. Their voice is the most poignant, expressive voice in Southern cuisine.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  People, Southern, Historical

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

  Anna Biller

  Beautiful, Pain, Cinema

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.

  James Fox

  Self, Practice, Trying

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• All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and it's been a great thing. It will help, in the end, to ease the trauma of slavery and civil war. The war against slavery cost almost 800,000 American lives - that's how strongly they felt about it. And it's not going to go away in a century.

  Martin Amis

  War, Rejection, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when I'm lost, I just feel like somewhere along the line, if you've gone through any childhood trauma, it makes you lose your essence and it takes a while to get that back. There are certain things about that that push my buttons.

  Mike Ness

  Essence, Childhood, Lines

  "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the brutal civil war, even people who had been badly wounded told me they missed those times. They were missing their more courageous selves.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, People, Missing

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• When a young person is not eating three meals a day but still getting perfect grades at school, or when a young person deals with trauma at a young age yet still makes it to college, these are the things that inspire me.

  Michael Skolnik

  School, College, Perfect

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.

  John Lewis

  Rights, Missing, Church

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust.

  Robin Lim

  Capacity To Love, Foundation, Research

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• The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children - or poor parenting or anything in their lives - causes them mental disorders. He says it's all biological and genetic and should be treated by drugs.

  Peter Breggin

  Children, Men, Drug

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• Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

  Alexander Cannon

  Lying, Healing, Past

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• I liked trumpet because it's related to boxing, but also it has a capacity to create a different type of beauty. There are fight fans, people who want to see that, but what they're really there to see is pretty rough. They're there for blood, which is fine. It's part of it. I enjoyed having the same type of internal, mental, physical fight, but enduring that sort of trauma or pain to send a message of love. I can still have the fight, but what I'm fighting for is more a reality that I want to create.

  Christian Scott

  Pain, Fighting, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Jobs, White, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental health trauma is different from somebody breaking into a store. Those are not the same things, and our response has to be different.

  Deray McKesson

  Police, Different, Mental Health

  Source: www.progressive.org

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