124 Trauma Quotes for You to Enjoy

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. Helen Fisher

Jealous Jealousy People Problem Others Symptom Insecure Scar More Tend True Feel Demon Overly Than Often Childhood Dependent Regard Psychological Inadequate Therapists Who Trauma Why

The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor decision-making. It can take a toll on our family life and interpersonal relationships. It can trigger real physical pain, symptoms, and disease. And it can lead to a range of self-destructive behaviors. Peter A. Levine

Life Family Pain Addictions Symptoms Relationships Our Range Trigger Physical Physical Pain Outlook Unresolved Habits Take Devastating Lead Leading Self-Destructive Real Affect Effects Disease Family Life Behaviors Decision-Making Poor Toll Trauma Interpersonal

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. Peter A. Levine

Power Destroy Paradox Both Transform Trauma

Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined. Tammy Duckworth

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler

Success Failure Experience Suits Cause Our Out No Experience Purposes Make Shock Just So-Called Experiences Them Trauma Suffer

Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself. Patch Adams

Love Character You Love Yourself Yourself Humanity People First Hug Whatever Clown Assumes Trick Percent Had Contact Still Close Get Clowning Your Trauma Second

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me. Sebastian Junger

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Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion. Sharon Salzberg

Knowledge Experience Compassion Power Our Gifts Someone Also Vulnerability Offer Experienced Depth Us Who Trauma Universal

Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth. Henry Cloud

Life Other Worlds Could Wired Open Part Development Developmental Steps Failures New Execute Because Up Endings Them Reasons Whole Trauma Away Actually Growth Shy

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche. Alex Lifeson

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There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper. Daniel Kaluuya

Crazy You Man People Black Men Down Those Running Scars Armor Make Talking Around Got Lot Sitting Going Being Being A Man Should Therapy Trauma Deeper Thing

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you. Iyanla Vanzant

Love You Respect Human Being Fear Losing Will Pain Other Others Visited Perceived Prevent Devastation Share Greatest Loss Same Human Being Order Anything Your Avoid Connection Trauma Humans Chances

PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn't go away. Mark Goulston

You Feeling Go Away Past Extreme Following Retrospect Vulnerability Understand How Occurs Causes Go Survived Get Trauma Away Awful

Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that. Michael Ignatieff

Politics Game Change People World Remember Tough Politicians Busy Nurse Way Jobs Would Emergency Tougher Lots Than Done Places Ward Trauma Saturday Saturday Night Night Need

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested. Mike Honda

Terrorism Constitution Never Tension Tested Tragedy Times Tranquility Turmoil Trauma

When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you can recover from that trauma. The things that I have witnessed and that I have been through, it's going to take a lifetime to undo. Patrisse Cullors

Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha's insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha's basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness. Peter A. Levine

Life Nature Suffering Healing Guidance Mirror Sense Our Though Insight Examining Recovering Buddha Powerful Identical Provide Effects Offers Your Teaching Trauma Wholeness Basic

Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these 'violations' can cause loss of vitality, diminished capacity for erotic connection and pleasure, and other symptoms of trauma. Peter A. Levine

Abortion Cause Other Symptoms Pleasure Diminished Sexual Vitality Performed Frequently Loss Any Capacity Organs Internal Connection Trauma Violations

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. Tom Hooper

People Think Throat Thumb Print Goes Childhood Many Trauma

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical. A. B. Yehoshua

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