531 Quotes About Ptsd

They Served...reliving memoriesthat will not diegiving their allfor you and I -friends takenlives shaken...

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After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

The part I wanted them to understand is that these equations can implode, constricting your whole life, until one day you're sitting in a locked steel box breathing through an airhole with a straw and wondering, 'Now? Now am I safe?

Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and well-being.

We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

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.

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.