For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.
Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.
I'll tell you, when you have wounds that are as deep as were caused by the genocide, the first thing you do is try to create some way to pull the wound together. And it may be artificial until the skin grows back.
You have these people that fight wars for their country, and then they come home and they need to attend to their mental health, and they can't get a job. That's a real thing.
From any traumatic injury, you're going to experience a lack of confidence. There's a whole process you have to go through to break free of that.
People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.
I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma.
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.
I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy - obviously!
Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should've been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child.
Thousands of our post-9/11 veterans carry the invisible burden of post-traumatic stress, and there is an overwhelming need to expand the available treatment options.
The best therapy is actually the more aggressive kind when they break you open; they unleash you.
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.
In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.
The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill.
In therapy , the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.
It would have been great if there were a trauma center located in our community, where you could access grief counseling and be able to address it in a healthy manner.
Children in urban communities suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome in higher proportions than veterans, and they need therapeutic outlets, which arts and drama has proven to provide.
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?
