{"quotes":[{"text":"As his boots walked towards the old station, he felt as though he were hallucinating. Scary apprehension increased the beat of his heart and the sweat upon his forehead was cold. The reality of where he stood created a sinking feeling inside of him.  An old man everyone called Uncle Tucker once owned this place. His sole existence behind the counter all of the time, day and night. He could have been a creature out of a fairy tale, with his long white beard and equally long white hair. Merlin. The overalls and the ball cap perched upon his head, along with the half-smoked cigar with an endless burning orb positioned in his mouth. It made him a fixture in time. He wondered if Tucker would still be alive. Tucker with his endless stories of the 1960s, the Vietnam War, and flower children. A man that never left a country thousands of miles away where bicycles filled the capital. A man who never left those fields where killing occurred.","author":"Jaime Allison Parker","tags":["age","aging","flashbacks","ptsd","the-past","time","trauma","vietnam-war"],"id":71565,"author_id":"Jaime+Allison+Parker"},{"text":"No matter how much you cry, the tears will dry. No matter how many nightmares, flashbacks, visions, or terrors you endure, they will pass. To weather these in order to find your true self and the happiness you deserve, that is not a risk. To waste the time you have in this body, never showing your soul to yourself or anyone else, living in fearful misery – that is really the most dangerous thing you can do.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["authenticity","emotional-healing","fear","flashbacks","healing","nightmares","open","self-healing","soul","trauma","vulnerability","vulnerable"],"id":75453,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"The traumatic moment becomes encoded in an abnormal form of memory, which breaks spontaneously into consciouness, both as flashbacks during waking states and as traumatic nightmares during sleep. Small, seemingly insignificant reminders can also evoke these memories, which often return with all the vividness and emotional force of the original event. Thus, even normally safe environments may come to feel dangerous, for the survivor can never be assured that she will not encounter some reminder of the trauma.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["flashbacks","memory","nightmares","ptsd","recovered-memories","repressed-memories","trauma","trauma-memories","trauma-memory","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatization","traumatized","triggers"],"id":115960,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"As modern neurobiologists point out, the repetition of the traumatic experience in the flashbacks can be itself re-traumatizing; if not life-threatening, it is at least threatening to the chemical structure of the brain and can ultimately lead to deterioration. And this would also seem to explain the high suicide rate of survivor, for example, survivors of Vietnam.","author":"Cathy Caruth","tags":["flashbacks","mental-illness","neurobiology","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","retraumatization","suicidality","suicide","suicide-rates","veterans-affairs","vietnam-veterans","vietnam-war"],"id":241570,"author_id":"Cathy+Caruth"},{"text":"The symptomatology of PTSD.In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims. Again and again they relieve the life-threatening experiences they suffered, reacting in mind and body as though such events were still occurring. PTSD is a complex psychobiological condition.","author":"Babette Rothschild","tags":["flashbacks","mind-body","physical","ptsd","somatic","the-body-remembers","trauma","trauma-memory","traumatic"],"id":244345,"author_id":"Babette+Rothschild"},{"text":"You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["communication","empath","empathy","flashbacks","friendship","god","goodbyes","kindness","love","promptings","restlessness"],"id":301777,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Much, much later. When I am back home and being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I will be enabled to see what was going on in my mind immediately after 11 August.I am still capable of operating mechanically as a soldier in these following days. But operating mechanically as a soldier is now all I am capable of.Martin says he is worried about me. He says I have the thousand-yard stare'.Of course, I cannot see this stare. But by now we both have more than an idea what it means.So, among all the soldiers here, this is nothing to be ashamed of. But as it really does just go with the territory we find ourselves in. It is just as equally not a badge of h.","author":"Jake Wood","tags":["acute-stress-reaction","army","army-in-afghanistan","army","automaton","casualty-of-war","combat-ptsd","crock-of-shit","dead-inside","depersonalised","depersonalization","depersonalized","detached","dissociated-state","dissociative","dumb","emotionless","flashback","flashbacks","idolisation","idolized","mechanical","military","military-psychiatry","military","naive","naive-soul","no-longer-human","nothingness","numb","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","posttraumatic","posttraumatic-stress","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","robotic","soldier","stare","thousand-yard-stare","traumatic-stress","traumatized","true-warrior","unemotional","warrior","warrior-qoutes","wounded-warriors"],"id":403401,"author_id":"Jake+Wood"},{"text":"Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy or bouncing like a rubber ball from now to then to back again. ... In the traumatic universe the basic laws of matter are suspended: ceiling fans can be helicopters, car exhaust can be mustard gas.","author":"David J. Morris","tags":["combat-ptsd","flashbacks","mental-disorder","mental-distress","mental-illness","military-psychiatry","military","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","time","trauma-survivors","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatized","veterans"],"id":416326,"author_id":"David+J.+Morris"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}