531 Quotes About Ptsd
- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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It is gone for ever, and now all is dark and empty.
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- Author Sonali Deraniyagala
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The more I remember, the more inconsolable I will be, I've told myself. But now increasingly I don't tussle with my memories. I want to remember. I want to know. Perhaps I can better tolerate being inconsolable now. Perhaps I suspect that remembering won't make me any more inconsolable. Or less.
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- Author Major General John Cantwell
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I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the same dusty tracks and fields as the ordinary soldiers. I did everything in my power to keep them alive, I failed. In that year I lost ten soldiers under my command, killed in action. I personally identified the remains of each of them, sending them home to their families. More than sixty of my soldiers were wounded, some horribly.
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- Author Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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You know how cats are. They'll heal themselves if you keep them locked up. In a couple of months his bones mended. But the fear didn't; it stayed in that cat's bones. He wasn't cocky no more. Now he jumps when I go by him with the wheelbarrow. Fear like that stays inside you forever if you don't find a way to get rid of it.
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- Author M.B. Dallocchio
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I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.
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- Author Christopher Dines
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The reality is that there are plenty of trustworthy people in the world rebuilding their lives. It was a very gradual process for me to open up and talk about what was really going on in my recovery. The more I started to take risks by talking to others, however, the more I had an opportunity to exercise boundaries. As I asserted new boundaries, I started to gravitate towards people with integrity, warmheartedness and decency.
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- Author M.B. Dallocchio
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There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there are others who want to keep silent and repress the memories, and all their family and friends want is to talk about it. I call this the war veteran reintegration paradox.
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- Author Bonnie Zieman
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Isn't that ultimately, the deepest reason why we choose to leave the Jehovah's Witness cult - to be fully who we are?
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- Author John Conrad
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Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they have to be.
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