Ptsd Quotes
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Ptsd Quotes & Sayings
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Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they have to be.
— John Conrad
Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].
— Alice Winocour
Congratulations for conquering PTSD. And now you're fucked.
— David Finkel
People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.
— Judith Lewis Herman
The world has PTSD. It is a veteran with a blown mind, having flashbacks as it begs the Sun for one more go-round.
— Carl-John X. Veraja
You know, it set you at war with yourself.
— Elizabeth Wein
It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said.
Safer? He didn't realize.
I was already dead. — Ruta Sepetys
Safer? He didn't realize.
I was already dead. — Ruta Sepetys
Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Trauma can have a masking effect.
— Asa Don Brown
Pigpen got excited because he made me grin when he told me that he thought PTSD stood for Probably There's Something wrong but Dunno what.
— Katie McGarry
What if I lose what little control I have left? I may live in a prison now, but at least I know my way around it.
— Nicole Deese
Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...
— Asa Don Brown
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.
— Erin Merryn
Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.
— Tom Glenn
If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
You know being and ex serviceman and a Disabled Gulf War Veteran. You could play Taps on a Jews Harp and I'd still cry
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there ...
— Robert Cormier
Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.
— Clint Van Winkle
Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
— S. Kelley Harrell
...People - the ones who are left behind - desire answers. Even when we are advised from beyond the grave not to pursue them.
— Marguerite Kaye
Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
— Aphrodite Matsakis
Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.
— Alex London
Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific ...
— Asa Don Brown
Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.
— Matthew J. Hefti
I'm Bipolar with PTSD without medication my mind wouldn't be free ... Medication works for me but not for everyone
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.
— Jane Leavy
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
— Michael Connelly
The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.
— James Garbarino
Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.
— Stephanie S. Covington
Seeing you with that guy tonight made me nuts, because every bone in my body says you're mine.
— J.M. Stewart
Killing is the ultimate refutation of our own humanity.
— Kevin Sites
It was her turn to hold him up.
— J.M. Stewart
Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.
— Trish Doller
Pain, torture or trauma cause bipolar and PTSD
and once you have it's hard to get free — Stanley Victor Paskavich
and once you have it's hard to get free — Stanley Victor Paskavich
When I have flash backs from PTSD I wish my mind came with a delete key.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Honor Lost
Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ... — Muse
Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ... — Muse
Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I'm not ashamed of my illness. I've been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character.
— Taya Kyle
When PTSD victims shut down, they appear void of all emotion and expression, but all the while they conceal a simmering fury deep within them.
— Nigel W.D. Mumford
The medical professionals should fight PTSD at every cost for those living in pain and the battles they've lost.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.
— Lee Ann Hoff
Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.
— Asa Don Brown
Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework ...
— Asa Don Brown
Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.
— Anna Funder
Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.
— Asa Don Brown
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
— Stefan Molyneux
The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left.
— Matthew J. Hefti
Taran. We go down fighting.
— Elizabeth Wein
Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.
— Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
No matter how bad your life gets if you Execute yourself it won't get better!
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
We don't heal in isolation, but in community.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Big Hug's Y'all!!
— Fifi Frost
SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country.
— Max Martini
You'll never see my books on Vanity Fair I'm not the type of author they would want there
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The truth will set you free!
— Linda Diane Wattley
Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.
— Sara Novic
The problem with having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse.
— Tiffany Madison
When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though.
— Suzanne Collins
Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim's response.
— David Yeung
For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch!
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do.
— Matthew J. Hefti
There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
— Lara Logan
PTSD will be the worlds greatest horror for those that survive an all out Nuclear War.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Apparently PTSD and grief flunked out of the same charm school; neither of them seems to know when it's cool to drop by.
— Mishell Baker
Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.
— Amanda Steele
Life is stress by definition.
— Rebecca McNutt
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.
— Jan Karon
I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.
— Sara Novic
You die a little inside every time you have joyless sex. Neurons prune back. The good in there withers. And some things never grow back.
— Hugh Howey
Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.
— Stephanie S. Covington
Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.
— Hugh Howey
PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.
— Romeo Dallaire
It [treating trauma] may even cause you to reconsider some of your previous views of the world and to revise your sociopolitical perspectives.
— Aphrodite Matsakis
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
— Dale Archer
I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.
— Barbara Lee
Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.
— S. Kelley Harrell
We've got some PTSD vets," Sarah says, making it sound like she's keeping them in jars somewhere.
— Phil Klay
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
— Frank M. Ochberg
PTSD: It's the big game. You're wearing a helmet and pads. You make the big play and turn to the crowd, but no one is there,
— Peggy Randall-Martin
I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.
— Stephanie S. Covington
Tears of my own begin to mix in with the raindrops, but I tell myself that the sky cries to show us that we can too.
— Amanda Steele