The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
Judith Lewis HermanTags: truth denial psychotherapy trauma taboo ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.
Susan Pease BanittTags: psychology emotions spirituality yoga healing stress mental-health posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ptsd traumatic-experiences traumatized traumatic-stress post-traumatic-stress-disorder posttraumatic
Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your strength, because you have survived!
Michelle TempletTags: inspirational survivors mental-illness posttraumatic-stress-disorder ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder healing-insights
Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
S. Kelley HarrellTags: healing support survivors shamanism posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma abuse-survivors ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.
Peter StraubTags: terror posttraumatic-stress-disorder ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder flashback flashbacks
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 KaronTags: war vietnam-war veterans posttraumatic-stress-disorder world-war-two world-war-1 world-war-one ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder battle-fatigue shell-shock
The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, “Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long as you experience fear or pain with a memory or flashback, there is a lie attached that needs to be confronted. In each healing step, there is a truth to be gathered and a lie to discard.
Christina EnevoldsenTags: fear truth pain lies mind lie brain healing sign trauma head ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder negative-thoughts flashback traumatic signal full-of-thoughts
Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness.
Judith SpencerTags: madness memory amnesia repression mental-health dissociation child-abuse posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ritual-abuse abuse dissociative-identity-disorder ptsd memory-loss childhood-trauma repressing-emotions post-traumatic-stress-disorder dissociative-amnesia dissociative-disorders
Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the world. A third are male. One study revealed that over 50 per cent of prostitutes are the children of alcoholics or substance abusers, and 90 per cent are deflowered through incest or rape. Ninety-one per cent of prostitutes do not speak of the abuse. (The truth of life is told through the language of behavior.) Abused children suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt, self-destructive impulses, suspicion, fear. Seventy-five per cent of prostitutes attempt suicide. (Imagine their scrapbook of memories.)
Antonella Gambotto-BurkeTags: fear prostitution guilt rape slavery suspicion incest prostitutes children-of-alcoholics post-traumatic-stress-disorder abused-children juvenile-prostitutes parasuicide self-destructive-impulses substance-abusers suicide-attempts
The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn’t who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.
Robert KogerTags: military mystery vietnam mental-illness vietnam-war veterans posttraumatic-stress-disorder dea fbi cia ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder combat-ptsd
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