Quotes Tagged With :traumatization

Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened....

Complexly traumatized children need to be helped to engage their attention in pursuits that do not remind....

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these....

Attitude Is EverythingWe live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain.....

I would like to turn in my skin and change it for a new epidermis. It feels as if I will never be able....

As modern neurobiologists point out, the repetition of the traumatic experience in the flashbacks can....

It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so....

The traumatic moment becomes encoded in an abnormal form of memory, which breaks spontaneously into consciouness,....

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw....

I am inundated with feeling. I feel like a pinball machine on tilt. All the buzzers are ringing, lights....