Traumatic Stress Quotes

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.

My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.

A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.

The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her.

I'm interested in the way that terror is almost a psychosomatic state. You may have suffered a small injury for a few seconds, but the rest of the year you're constantly on the alert, your injury is constantly with you - and I mean this on a city-wide scale.

I told Sarah Palin it would be absolutely fine. I thought it would be appropriate. There was tremendous press, and I think it's something that's very important to discuss.Not even for her son, but for so many other sons and daughters that are coming back from the Middle East, where they have traumatic problems. They have tremendous problems.