673 Quotes About Child-abuse

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.

Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.

It was constantly impressed upon me in forceful terms that I must obey promptly the wishes and commands of my parents, teachers, and priests, and indeed of all grown-up people, including servants, and that nothing must distract me from this duty. Whatever they said was always right. These basic principles by which I was brought up became second nature to me."-- Rudolf Höss, Commandant at Auschwitz

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.p26

It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.

You are not mad. You are recovering from trauma. Mad people abused you,