“When people are behaving in apparently self-destructive ways, it’s time to stop asking what’s wrong with them, and time to start asking what happened to them.”— Dr. Robert Anda, huffingtonpost.comTagged: Mental Illness, Self-Destructive, Psychology, Trauma
“The act of releasing your shame is – in itself – healing.”— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.comTagged: Healing, Healing From Childhood Trauma, Shameless
“Blaming yourself for your childhood traumas protects you from seeing how vulnerable you were and are. You can become the powerful one. If it’s your fault, it’s ― at some strange level ― under your control.”— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.comTagged: Child Abuse, Psychology, Psychological Trauma, Defense Mechanisms
“One woman said she put on weight after she was raped because “overweight is overlooked, and that’s the way I need to be.” It turned out many of these women had been making themselves obese for an unconscious reason: to protect themselves from the attention of men, who they believed would hurt them.”— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.comTagged: Rape, Survivor Stories, Obesity
“The more I investigated depression and anxiety, the more I found that, far from being caused by a spontaneously malfunctioning brain, depression and anxiety are mostly being caused by events in our lives. If you find your work meaningless and you feel you have no control over it, you are far more li…”— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.comTagged: Mental Health, Psychology