{"quotes":[{"text":"And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["ptsd","shell-shock","trauma"],"id":537,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"It has many forms, not all of which look like what you see in movies.","author":"Carya Cunningham-Sloan","tags":["diagnosis","mental-illness","ptsd","sterotypes"],"id":2071,"author_id":"Carya+Cunningham-Sloan"},{"text":"When I'm triggered, I think, 'This will last forever' or 'What if this lasts forever?' I get thoughts about how I should give up, run away, hide, protect myself. These thoughts, I cannot change. What I can change is how I respond to them. Will I unconditionally believe these ideas, or will I accept them as side effects of the temporary experience of pain? Will I act on each thought that arises in the burning fire, or will I hold myself gently and say, 'It'll be okay. I know it hurts. I love you'? My power lies in these choices.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["choice","emotional-healing","emotional-triggers","emotions","healing","healing-the-past","mind","pain","ptsd","self-healing","self-love","self-soothing","suffering","vulnerability"],"id":11872,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"We thought we'd seen it all. The real horror of war is always waiting for you at home. It's waiting, I tell you. We were so damned happy when we got back. We'd made it. We survived. But it's always waiting. Waiting. You let down your guard. And there it is. You can't ever let up. Give up.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["ptsd","war"],"id":13002,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"You’re not the same. You’re not supposed to be the same. You’re supposed to be different. This isn’t something you will ever forget.","author":"Daisy Whitney","tags":["memories","memory","ptsd","rape","trauma","trauma-memories","traumatic-experiences","violence"],"id":14684,"author_id":"Daisy+Whitney"},{"text":"Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.","author":"Clint Van Winkle","tags":["army","iraq","lip-service","military","ptsd","soldiers","support","troops","war"],"id":15683,"author_id":"Clint+Van+Winkle"},{"text":"Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war—peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm, tells you to turn over, think about home.","author":"Clint Van Winkle","tags":["army","military","mind","peace","ptsd","soldiers","war"],"id":16232,"author_id":"Clint+Van+Winkle"},{"text":"For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do.","author":"Matthew J. Hefti","tags":["deployment","guilt","hurt","iraq","love","ptsd","regret","relationship","romance","war"],"id":20775,"author_id":"Matthew+J.+Hefti"},{"text":"Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.","author":"Mark Goulston","tags":["dangerous-world","lack-of-trust","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","sense-of-self","shattered-souls","stress","trauma","traumatic-stress","work-view"],"id":23247,"author_id":"Mark+Goulston"},{"text":"You've been so used to fighting Wars with a gun in your hand that you forget to put it down. Not every fight requires a weapon of some kind, and not everything is a fight.","author":"Lori Llewellyn","tags":["ptsd","veterans","war"],"id":23332,"author_id":"Lori+Llewellyn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":243,"pages":25,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}