Quotes tagged ‘PTSD’

“Well, it’s been my experience as a clinician that, the more serious the events that you’re discussing with people, the more the language shifts towards what you might describe as the religious. So, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder—that’s a good example—or cases of serious child abuse or t…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com

“They clearly wish these things hadn’t happened to them. But if they must be here, recounting private traumas for an often critical public, they want you to know it could just have easily been you.”

— Katie Heaney, thecut.com

“'Lorena' restores Lorena’s dignity, not only aligning her ordeal with the modern-day #MeToo movement, but perhaps more crucially, eviscerating the smug, lazy, sensation-driven treatment she received at the time.”

— Tim Grierson, melmagazine.com

“Mary: Do you think it could be PTSD? Shawn: I think it's far more serious than a mere menstrual issue.”

— Bill Callahan, Shawn Spencer, James Roday, imdb.com

“There was another epidemic that was not talked about much, a silent scourge—the explosion of mental illness: major depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, manic-depression, personality disorders, grief response, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, etc.—on a scale none of us had ever wit…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Even loud voices, a raised eyebrow, flashing eyes or a change in mood can send the ACoA sailing back into a place inside of them where they feel anxious and threatened all over again.”

— Dr. Tian Dayton, huffingtonpost.com

“While I found my passion for wine again, it has never felt quite the same. It took years of therapy to come to the realization that the only person responsible for sexual violence is the predator—period.”

— Jacy Topps, munchies.vice.com

“If my father could kill people, then, I reasoned, anyone could be a killer.”

— Jenn Carson, huffingtonpost.com

“You're allowed to have normal human emotions in response to a hostile situation. While you can choose better coping methods, no one exhibits 'perfect' behavior in response to chronic mistreatment.”

— Shahida Arabi, enigmatic-being.tumblr.com

“I didn’t tell anyone I tried to kill myself. Something else I buried deep.”

— Junot Dìaz, newyorker.com

“Did they tell you I'm being hideous? It's because, like...listen to me. I've lost my voice because I've been crying so much. I have, like, major PTSD, with an emphasis on the... on the ’S’ and the ’T.’ And definitely some of the ‘D’ and the ‘P.’ Because it's been a while since all of this happened a…”

— Jim Clemente, Penelope Garcia, Kirsten Vangsness, imdb.com

“I can tell you this. When she first came to me, she was suffering from extreme PTSD. For lacking a better clinical term, she was a hot mess!”

— Virgil Williams, Dr. Jerry Berneman, Greg Dehm, imdb.com

“So if you encounter someone with Avoidant Personality Disorder, you’re likely to see how much more massive their anxiety and social inhibition is, than say, a person who is “just” anxious. This isn’t just someone who gets easily drained by other people (as many introverts do) or avoids interactions…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Walker states that for people with Complex PTSD, individuals develop four “F” responses when they are triggered by emotional flashbacks: they may fight, flee, fawn (seek to please) or freeze. These responses are protective, but they may end up further harming the survivor because the survivor might…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“There is overlap between some of the symptoms of this disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder, symptoms of trauma, PTSD or Complex PTSD as well as a host of other mental health issues. It is thought that Avoidant Personality Disorder and social anxiety itself can also be caused by trauma. It also overl…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“It's about becoming safe to feel what you feel. When you're traumatized you're afraid of what you're feeling, because your feeling is always terror, or fear or helplessness. I think these body-based techniques help you to feel what's happening in your body, and to breathe into it and not run away fr…”

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, sideeffectspublicmedia.org

“We just did a study on yoga for people with PTSD. We found that yoga was more effective than any medicine that people have studied up to now. That doesn't mean that yoga cures it, but yoga makes a substantial difference in the right direction.”

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, sideeffectspublicmedia.org

“Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.”

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com

“The greatest hope for traumatized, abused, and neglected children is to receive a good education in schools where they are seen and known, where they learn to regulate themselves, and where they can develop a sense of agency. At their best, schools can function as islands of safety in a chaotic worl…”

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com

“Mainstream trauma treatment has paid scant attention to helping terrified people to safely experience their sensations and emotions.”

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com