Abby Donovan: [Talking about their son] What did you do to him? Ray Donovan: I took him downtown and had a talk with him. Abby Donovan: Talk? Ray Donovan: Showed him some pictures. Took him some place he doesn't want to be . Abby Donovan: Did you traumatize him? Ray Donovan: I sure fucking hope so.
— David Hollander, Sean Conway, Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber, imdb.com
There is no need to go through life handicapped by past experiences. What others say about you doesn’t matter. How they treated you is inconsequential.
Epidemiological data suggest that as many as 30 percent of mental health disorders are related to childhood adversity, highlighting the widespread impact of early trauma on public health.
I was up visiting a friend's, and was walking back home in the evening, and saw these three seniors, seniors in high school approaching. I just had a feeling that something was going to happen, and sure enough, one of them just took out a billy club and whacked me on the back of the neck. For no rea…
Sure, the internet is a place that frequently makes a mockery of serious things. But some things, like real, life-altering trauma, should be left the hell alone.
While I found my passion for wine again, it has never felt quite the same. It took years of therapy to come to the realization that the only person responsible for sexual violence is the predator—period.
He hit us when he was drunk, things were thrown, we had to run for our lives. We spent many nights, weekends, hidden in DHSS rooms. I remember being woken in the night, mum screaming, and rushing down the street in our pyjamas to a neighbour's to wait for the police.
And everybody tells you, ‘Oh, whatever happens to you, it will make you stronger, fuck them…It’s so mean, that is the stupidest thing. It doesn’t make you better at all. It could ruin you.
Just imagine what a generation of unbroken women could do.
When Warsan Shire writes, she does precisely that; she opens a wound and as an emotional cartographer, maps the terrain of her trauma and sutures the wound through her poetry. Fearless and vulnerable, she pulls back layers to expose not only the pain, but the healing as well.
There are times we try to forgive ourselves for something we shouldn’t even have to forgive ourselves for. The traumas you experienced were not your fault. As a survivor, you didn't deserve to be abused, violated, assaulted or taken advantage of.
I didn’t tell anyone I tried to kill myself. Something else I buried deep.
Bullying leaves lasting scars.
— Stephanie Sengupta, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com
I appreciate the concern, but when your father kills 25 women before you're a teenager, painful memories don't need a trigger. They just are.
— Edward Allen Bernero, Ashley Seaver, Rachel Nichols, imdb.com
So if you encounter someone with Avoidant Personality Disorder, you’re likely to see how much more massive their anxiety and social inhibition is, than say, a person who is “just” anxious. This isn’t just someone who gets easily drained by other people (as many introverts do) or avoids interactions…
Walker states that for people with Complex PTSD, individuals develop four “F” responses when they are triggered by emotional flashbacks: they may fight, flee, fawn (seek to please) or freeze. These responses are protective, but they may end up further harming the survivor because the survivor might…
There is overlap between some of the symptoms of this disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder, symptoms of trauma, PTSD or Complex PTSD as well as a host of other mental health issues. It is thought that Avoidant Personality Disorder and social anxiety itself can also be caused by trauma. It also overl…
I saw the darkest of dark and that’s what I grew up around.
Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.
The greatest hope for traumatized, abused, and neglected children is to receive a good education in schools where they are seen and known, where they learn to regulate themselves, and where they can develop a sense of agency. At their best, schools can function as islands of safety in a chaotic worl…