155 Quotes About Childhood-trauma

The fear and the excitement responses in our brains are exactly the same.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

For no real reason – well, perhaps because of the seriousness under the trees or Nader’s hair, which was very messy and covered in little grass seeds – Katie began to giggle. She knew it was wrong, yet it was also natural. She covered her mouth with both hands, but Nader was already pale with revulsion. He turned and marched away into unwanted sunlight, leaving her to wonder why bad things happened and why no good person prevented them.

Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.

Ich bin traurig", sage ich. "Warum?", will er wissen."Keine Ahnung. Weil es unfair ist. Weil all diese Menschen mich nicht richtig behandelt haben. Weil man so nicht sein darf zu einem kleinen Kind. Und ich bin wütend. Weil alles so anders hätte sein können.

But when she was scared, she was a child again, and she was more afraid of being a child again than anything else in her life.

My mother was already an abandoned soul, a misguided young woman who would subconsciously put herself into situations that starved her soul. The worst feeling in the world is to love someone who cannot love you back, to care about someone who can only care about themselves.

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.