Health Trauma Quotes

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

I wrote 'A Boy and His Soul' that talks about how my mother had lupus and my dad dying of a heart condition.

To say that losing your pancreas is a sad thing is not an overstatement. They had to take my pancreas away, my duodenum, and it's damaged for ever.

When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental health trauma is different from somebody breaking into a store. Those are not the same things, and our response has to be different.

I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.