531 Quotes About Ptsd
- Author Stanley Victor Paskavich
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When I have flash backs from PTSD I wish my mind came with a delete key.
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- Author Donna Kasubeck
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We are all just one event or trauma way from suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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- Author Norma Jean Profitt
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This [June's] account poignantly illustrates many of the multi- faceted, complex, and contradictory processes contained in participants' stories.
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- Author Bessel A. van der Kolk
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Memories of traumatic experiences may not be primarily retrieved as narratives. Our own and others’ research has suggested that PTSD traumatized people’s difficulties with putting memories into words are reflected in actual changes in brain activity.(van der Kolk, Hopper & Osterman, 2001)Trauma and Cognitive Science, Chapter 1
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- Author Aphrodite Matsakis
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It [treating trauma] may even cause you to reconsider some of your previous views of the world and to revise your sociopolitical perspectives.
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- Author Kelly Wilson
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For me, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is like a good friend. A necessary girlfriend, but with chronic PMS. A temperamental – and even volatile – friend who does not play well with others and whom I dearly love. It’s a strange relationship.
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- Author Glenn Schiraldi
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Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood.
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- Author Bessel A. van der Kolk
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Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.
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- Author David Yeung
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One aspect of DID is the PTSD suffered by some of the alters. PTSD is similar to Panic Attacks in that once turned on, the anxiety is fed into a vicious cycle.
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