{"quotes":[{"text":"We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.","author":"Chris Cleave","tags":["life","trauma"],"id":206,"author_id":"Chris+Cleave"},{"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":"Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.","author":"Jill Stauffer","tags":["ethics","political-philosophy","survivors","trauma"],"id":844,"author_id":"Jill+Stauffer"},{"text":"Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.","author":"Marlene Steinberg","tags":["amnesia","catastrophe","combat","complex-trauma","concentration-camp-survivor","concentration-camps","consciousness","dissociated","dissociation","dissociative","memory","political-prisoners","psychology","soldiers","survivor","torture","trauma","trauma-survivors"],"id":2764,"author_id":"Marlene+Steinberg"},{"text":"An observant friend will recognize the signs of the rise of grief: eyes that easily well with tears, a smile that is difficult to sustain, a tendency to withdraw. And ultimately, perhaps we each need to create our own symbol of grieving — to wear our version of black, or maybe to color with black crayons for a while.","author":"Sandy Oshiro Rosen","tags":["anxiety","art","dance","depression","fear","grief","loss","stress","trauma"],"id":5115,"author_id":"Sandy+Oshiro+Rosen"},{"text":"I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find the cure. But of course there was no reasonable why, at least not in the present. I was awash in an accumulation of past feelings and future dreads, all similar, at least as far as my brain was concerned, and so, lumped together as one. But nobody can handle a lifetime of experience in one moment. That's why depression crushes you.","author":"Norah Vincent","tags":["depression","mental-health","mental-illness","recovery","sadness","trauma"],"id":5703,"author_id":"Norah+Vincent"},{"text":"People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.","author":"Alice Hoffman","tags":["depression","introversion","secrets","trauma"],"id":8088,"author_id":"Alice+Hoffman"},{"text":"The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.","author":"Samuel Armen","tags":["memories","memory","psychology","self","sociology","trauma"],"id":11027,"author_id":"Samuel+Armen"},{"text":"Pain \u0026 suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["awareness","buddhism","healing","love","self-love","transformation","trauma"],"id":11535,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"She’s thinking about grief and trauma, how they can hide out inside a woman, how they can come back.The playwright follows her eyes, until he sees what she sees.The photographer’s framed image, the orphan girl lit up by the explosion, a girl blowing forward, a girl coming out of fire, a girl who looks as if she might blast right through image and time into the world“I know what’s happened,” the poet says.","author":"Lidia Yuknavitch","tags":["grief","trauma"],"id":11557,"author_id":"Lidia+Yuknavitch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":366,"pages":37,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}