1,745 Quotes About Abuse

A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base...

Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Amnesia can affect both implicit and explicit memory.

Cheryl's growing awareness of her emotional difficulties was leading her to research multiple personality. As she had learned more about dissociation, she realised just how severe the abuse had been and how much she had been hurt. Her mind had dissociated to assure survival during the abuse by her father and it had been forced to dissociate by various researchers in government programmes.