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Dr. Peter Levine, who has worked with trauma survivors for twenty-five years, says the single most important factor he has learned in uncovering the mystery of human trauma is what happens during and after the freezing response. He describes an impala being chased by a cheetah. The second the cheetah pounces on the young impala, the animal goes limp. The impala isn’t playing dead, she has “instinctively entered an altered state of consciousness, shared by all mammals when death appears imminent.” (Levine and Frederick, Waking the Tiger, p. 16) The impala becomes instantly immobile. However, if the impala escapes, what she does immediately thereafter is vitally important. She shakes and quivers every part of her body, clearing the traumatic energy she has accumulated.

Marilyn Van Derbur

Stichwörter: survivors trauma traumatic-experiences traumatized fight-flight-freeze play-dead trauma-experiences traumatic-stress

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If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. “Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.

Marilyn Van Derbur

Stichwörter: depression beliefs survivors anxiety belief-quotes trauma survivor chronic-pain traumatized physical-pain physical-problems somatic survivors-of-abuse somatic-experience trauma-healing trauma-survivors

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All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small ticking time bombs—they are illnesses in incubation.

Marilyn Van Derbur

Stichwörter: emotions trauma survivor child-sexual-abuse-survivor incest trauma-experiences physical-pain physical-problems repressed-emotions somatic somatic-therapy survivor-of-abuse survivors-of-abuse trauma-survivor traumatied

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If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet.

Cathy Caruth

Stichwörter: experience literature freud psychoanalysis trauma

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Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?

George R.R. Martin

Stichwörter: memory fire blood ash trauma hole knight beric-dondarrion thoros

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The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

Andrea Gibson

Stichwörter: grief bones trauma andrea-gibson the-madness-vase

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Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The United States Army enlists young men at seventeen; the average age of the Vietnam combat soldier was nineteen. In many other countries boys are conscripted for military service while barely in their teens. Similarly, the period of highest risk for rape is in late adolescence. Half of all victims are aged twenty or younger at the time they are raped; three-quarters are between the ages of thirteen and twenty-six. The period of greatest psychological vulnerability is also in reality the period of greatest traumatic exposure, for both young men and young women. Rape and combat might thus be considered complementary social rites of initiation into the coercive violence at the foundation of adult society. They are the paradigmatic forms of trauma for women and men.

Judith Lewis Herman

Stichwörter: rape trauma combat ptsd

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Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Asa Don Brown

Stichwörter: childhood psychology research recovery child-abuse posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma resiliency ptsd psychologist childhood-trauma child-trauma childhood-abuse childhood-traumas