54 Quotes About Post-traumatic-stress-disorder

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.

P.T.S.D. doesn't make you weak. It makes you a survivor.

Dissociation can enable us to withstand pain and loss under which we would otherwise break. It enables us to survive and pull through. But, a habit of continual dissociation – especially after the trauma has passed – leads to the shut-in feeling I was experiencing. While I imagined I was being strong in the face of pain, in reality, I was merely hiding.

...some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any psychiatric diagnosis or wish to deny their condition out of a sense of pride. Some people feel that acknowledging psychological harm grants a moral victory to the perpetrator, in a way that acknowledging physical harm does not.

The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn’t who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.