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Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.
— Patricia Montandon
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.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The holes are slowly filling up, and despite itself the brain will work until the job is completed.
— Danny Scheinmann
When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.
— Isabel Gillies
There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
— Milton H. Erickson
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
— Nan Goldin
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
— Andrea Riseborough
My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury
— Rodney Barnes
My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.
— Ishmael Beah
My brother is a doctor and he will take care of post-traumatic stress. I think he'll do it for free.
— Wladimir Klitschko
Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome is an opportunity to fight your way to the stronger person you will become.
— Reba Riley
The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10,000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.
— Matt Chandler
I had forgotten the fact that I had been raped, something no one would understand, how could anyone forget something as traumatic as being raped?
— Stephen Richards
The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.
— Frank Lowy
I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.
— Haskell Wexler
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
I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
— Joni Mitchell
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
— Richard Wagner
Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.
— Tom Glenn
The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.
— R.C. Sproul
It is traumatic to find out that so much of what you have been taught to believe and stand for is actually used to control you
— Malebo Sephodi
All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
— Steven Spielberg
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
— Ian Smith
Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
— Wendy Hoffman
Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
— Lynette Gould
They may surprise you. Traumatic events change people. Makes them say and do unexpected things. So
— Harper Bliss
Sometimes patients may report traumatic memories of events that they have not actually experienced themselves. Van der Hart and Van der Velden (1995)
— Onno Van Der Hart
Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.
— Aphrodite Matsakis
Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.
— Ilana Mercer
Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate from my heart and spread throughout my chest.
— Theresa Braun
Traumatic times in one's life often led to a sixth sense about things.
— Catherine Bybee
'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
— Lee Daniels
Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.
— Moby
Post-traumatic shock, phooey. Seemed to me the trauma was trotting right along with me, like a dog on a leash with its owner. I was the dog. I
— Robin McKinley
Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.
— Sophie Kennedy Clark
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
— James Hillman
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
The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.
— Paulo Coelho
I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.
— Woody Allen
The idea that traumatic residues - or unresolved stories - can be inherited is groundbreaking.
— Sharon Salzberg
The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.
— James Garbarino
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
...I thought you had to go to Iraq to get post traumatic stress disorder. And you do. But you can also just come on over to my house!
— Carrie Fisher
Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less
— J.A. Redmerski
The post-traumatic shock from living in Florida never goes away, yet part of me is forever attached to that eccentric, heat-infested swamp.
— Jennifer Harrison
I don't have concussion problems. I have got a problem with people giving me traumatic blows to the head, that's what I have got a problem with.
— Dean McAmmond
The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.
— Trevor Moore
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
For each traumatic event that happened to a child, they were two to four times more likely to grow up to be an addicted adult.
— Johann Hari
THE SECOND SPEAKER, ANITA SALTMARCHE, focused specifically on studies of light therapy used for traumatic brain injury, stroke, and depression.
— Norman Doidge
We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.
— Elif Shafak
I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.
— Kate Zambreno
Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
— Kangana Ranaut
The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
— Dawn Johnsen
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.
— Gregory Orr
A death is traumatic. Vivid enough to mark any surface, to burn in like light on photo paper.
— Victoria Schwab
My traumatic experience was life changing
— Asa Don Brown
If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.
— Frederick Lenz
The heart is a muscle like any other. Tearing it down is the only way to make it stronger.
— Sarah Skilton
Changing my name was traumatic for me.
— Eve Best
Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
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
Post-traumatic stress is a powerful force with the ability to change us. Even the strongest of us.
— Simon Wood
I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.
— Stephen Tobolowsky
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.
— Michael Gruber
PTSD will be the worlds greatest horror for those that survive an all out Nuclear War.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
He'd hated being separated from her in the aftermath of something so traumatic but he'd had no choice. When
— Kaylea Cross
It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.
— Jess Glynne
Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.
— John Caudwell
I guess by default we're all the ones shaking our heads at the stupidity of others until we're forced into traumatic experiences ourselves.
— J.A. Redmerski
I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.
— Dominic Monaghan
I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
— Alexandre Aja
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
— Steven Spielberg
Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.
— Tim Sandlin
I once read a survey that explained how moving is as traumatic as divorce, or as the death of a parent.
— S.K. Tremayne
It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.
— A.C. Grayling
I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.
— Richard Hammond
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic ... only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?
— Jodi Picoult
Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
— Rachel Stevens
I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.
— Christina Ricci
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
— Frank M. Ochberg
The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.
— Krysten Ritter
Her [Sarah Palin] son went to Iraq under George W. Bush, but it gives us a chance to explain what post-traumatic stress disorder is.
— Jon Soltz
Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.
— Stephanie S. Covington