{"quotes":[{"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":"Dr. Peter Levine, who has worked with trauma survivors for twenty-five years, says the single most important factor he has learned in uncovering the mystery of human trauma is what happens during and after the freezing response. He describes an impala being chased by a cheetah. The second the cheetah pounces on the young impala, the animal goes limp. The impala isn’t playing dead, she has “instinctively entered an altered state of consciousness, shared by all mammals when death appears imminent.” (Levine and Frederick, Waking the Tiger, p. 16) The impala becomes instantly immobile. However, if the impala escapes, what she does immediately thereafter is vitally important. She shakes and quivers every part of her body, clearing the traumatic energy she has accumulated.","author":"Marilyn Van Derbur","tags":["fight-flight-freeze","play-dead","survivors","trauma","trauma-experiences","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatized"],"id":31977,"author_id":"Marilyn+Van+Derbur"},{"text":"When preparing for Book One, I talked to a couple of psychiatrists about psychosomatic phenomena, neuroses and dissociative conditions, for example the so—called hysterical blindness suffered by many who saw the Killing Fields in Pol Pot’s Cambodia: their eyes objectively see, but they are not aware of it and are blind because they believe they can’t see. One specialist told me that among modern Western people, ’metaphorical’ symptoms such as Fredy or those Cambodians evince are much rarer now than earlier in the twentieth century or before. Nowadays most people are better equipped by education to verbalise their neuroses, and have lots of jargon in which to do so. For most of the dissociative dimension, I could draw on things I knew from within myself.","author":"Les Murray","tags":["blindness","conversion-disorder","dissociation","dissociative","hysteria","hysterical-dissociation","mental-disorder","mental-illness","neuoroses","neurosis","neuroticism","pol-pot","psychogenic","psychosomatic","trauma","trauma-survivors","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatized"],"id":92364,"author_id":"Les+Murray"},{"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":"No infant starts to speak with a stammer.","author":"Lionel Logue","tags":["personal-development","traumatic-stress"],"id":147187,"author_id":"Lionel+Logue"},{"text":"Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.","author":"Peter A. Levine","tags":["gift","healing","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","posttraumatic-stress","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","relief","trauma","trauma-experiences","trauma-healing","traumatic-epiphonies","traumatic-stress","traumatized"],"id":158334,"author_id":"Peter+A.+Levine"},{"text":"PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.","author":"Susan Pease Banitt","tags":["emotions","healing","mental-health","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","posttraumatic","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","psychology","ptsd","spirituality","stress","trauma","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatized","yoga"],"id":278386,"author_id":"Susan+Pease+Banitt"},{"text":"When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.","author":"Willie Aames","tags":["ptsd","self-esteem","shame","trauma","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress"],"id":337456,"author_id":"Willie+Aames"},{"text":"July 15, 1991Nita: My mother was a paragon of our neighborhood, People always come up to us with hugs, saying 'You have the most wonderful mother.' l'd think. “Don't you see what's going on in this house?” To this day, if somehow even in jest raises their hand to me, I will do this (raises hands to protect face and cowers) I cringe. Then they look at me like, what's your probem? You don't get that from a great childhood.","author":"Sarah E. Olson","tags":["defensive","hypervigilance","jumpy","overreact","overreaction","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","trauma","trauma-survivor","traumatic-stress","traumatized"],"id":341182,"author_id":"Sarah+E.+Olson"},{"text":"Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909).","author":"Pierre Janet","tags":["posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","ptss","trauma","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress"],"id":341831,"author_id":"Pierre+Janet"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}