531 Quotes About Ptsd

In that hospital they don't bury the dead, they keep them in rooms and talk to them.

It might be possible that 'triggered' may not be the most helpful word ... For me, there is a felt sense of violence in this word, while 'touched and awakened' more accurately describes what happens to these sequestered neural nets. This gentler wording helps us cultivate a sense of meeting the experience every time we are so 'touched' with an appreciation for what it might be offering.

Nie ma miłosierdzia, nie ma współczucia, jest tylko zapomnienie. I tylko poniżenie i ból stanowią gwarancję trwałej pamięci. Nauczyliśmy się tego w kraju, z którego przybyliśmy, i tej wiedzy nie da się zapomnieć. Krzyk i szloch to dźwięki, które słyszymy, podniecają nas jak dzwonek psy Pawłowa, na resztę jesteśmy głusi. Zapach strachu wychwytujemy bezbłędnie, on najbardziej drażni nasze nozdrza.

The scenery changes but the pain remains.

Emotionally wounded addicts have an extremely difficult time with intimacy and with trusting themselves and others. They have a deep desire to trust, but their emotional scars and traumatic memories haunt them whenever an opportunity to trust another person arises. Naturally this can lead to a very lonely existence.

He tried hard to forget the images of war that now began to haunt him.

The symptomatology of PTSD.In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims. Again and again they relieve the life-threatening experiences they suffered, reacting in mind and body as though such events were still occurring. PTSD is a complex psychobiological condition.

We hardly ever talk about trauma afterwards, because it helps to live in a world where we can pretend it never happened.

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?