{"quotes":[{"text":"Yolanda Gampel utilizes an expanded concept of the 'uncanny' to outline the results of violence: Those who experience such traumas are faced with an unbelievable and unreal reality that is incompatible with anything they knew previously. As a result, they can no longer fully believe what they see with their own eyes; they have difficulty distinguishing between the unreal reality they have survived and the fears that spring from their own imagination.","author":"Nicole Waller","tags":["denial","derealization","disbelief","ptsd","self-doubt","trauma-memories","traumatic-experiences","traumatized","unreal"],"id":63320,"author_id":"Nicole+Waller"},{"text":"It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better than the boxing matches. We kept drinking.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["derealization","life","movies"],"id":110450,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Oh God just look at me now... One night opens words and utters pain... I cannot begin to explain to you... This... I am not here. This is not happening. Oh wait, it is, isn't it?I am a ghost. I am not here, not really. You see skin and cuts and frailty...These are symptoms, you known, of a ghost. An unclear image with unclear thoughts whispering vague things...If I told you what was really in my head, you''d never let me leave this place. And I have no desire to spend time in hell while I'm still, in theory, alive.","author":"Emily Andrews","tags":["crazy","cuts","cutting","derealization","frail","ghost","hospital","mental-health","mental-illness","psychiatric-hospital","reality","self-harm","self-injury","suicidal","symptoms","thoughts","unreal","weak"],"id":192007,"author_id":"Emily+Andrews"},{"text":"Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told.","author":"Charles Linden","tags":["agoraphobia","anxiety","charles-linden","depersonalization","derealization","ocd","panic-attacks","ptsd","pure-o","the-linden-method"],"id":322376,"author_id":"Charles+Linden"},{"text":"I was not descending in a plane, coming Home. I was watching an alien world as it ascended towards me - and one that I could never begin the process of readjusting to, because I knew that I would just as soon be returning to another world, whose normality was as alien to this home as I now was.","author":"Jake Wood","tags":["alien","alienated","combat-ptsd","coming-home","derealization","dissociated","dissociative","don-t-belong","military-ptsd","not-fitting-in","traumatized","troops","war"],"id":352455,"author_id":"Jake+Wood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}