A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Acknowledgement Denial Freedom Liberation Slave Slavery

As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences.

~ Aphrodite Matsakis

Aphrodite Matsakis Abuse Survivors Counseling Denial Disbelief Mental Health Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychotherapy Ptsd Society Denial Therapy Trauma Survivors Traumatic Experiences Unbelievable

Ben Scott couldn't be afraid of the supernatural. He didn't believe in the supernatural. Ben Scott was firmly convinced that he didn't believe in anything

~ Jan-Andrew Henderson

Jan-Andrew Henderson Denial Supernatural

Claire hated to say it, but she knew the answer, in her heart. “Because he feels something for me, and he wanted to give me a chance to live. Like him. With him. But I refused.”Shane turned and looked at her, a blank expression on his face that turned quickly into . . . something else. Claire was glad Myrnin had gotten out while he still could. “Great,” he said. “I knew it.”“It’s not like that. He’s—” She shook her head in frustration. “It’s not like he’s in love with me or anything; it’s more complicated than that. I don’t even think he understands it, exactly.”“Yeah, he only loves you for your mind,” Shane said...

~ Rachel Caine

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In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows the depth of feeling evident amongst many sceptics. However, this raises an important question: Why did academics and journalists feel so strongly about allegations of ritualistic abuse, to the point of pervasively misrepresenting the available evidence and treating women disclosing ritualistic abuse, and those workers who support them, with barely concealed contempt? It is of course true that there are fringe practitioners in the field of organised abuse, just as there are fringe practitioners in many other health-related fields. However, the contrast between the measured tone of the majority of therapists and social workers writing on ritualistic abuse, and the over-blown sensationalism of their critics, could not be starker. Indeed, Scott (2001) notes with irony that the writings of those who claimed that ‘satanic ritual abuse’ is a ‘moral panic’ had many of the features of a moral panic: scapegoating therapists, social workers and sexual abuse victims whilst warning of an impending social catastrophe brought on by an epidemic of false allegations of sexual abuse. It is perhaps unsurprising that social movements for people accused of sexual abuse would engage in such hyperbole, but why did this rhetoric find so many champions in academia and the media?

~ Michael Salter

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The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

~ Sara Sheridan

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The people who were behind my abuse were very clever. They had created something which would be so difficult to explain, so difficult to make sense of, that it would be easier to dismiss it all out of hand as the ramblings of an over-imaginative child.Many people don't want to believe that child abuse exists, or are only willing to believe that certain kinds of abuse go on. They don't want to consider that something so horrific, and yet so widespread, is taking place in their community, perhaps only a door away from them, a few steps from their lives - or even in their lives if they would only open their eyes.I know this, not just because of my own personal experience, but through my work supporting and listening to survivors and those still experiencing abuse.To ask people not only to believe in the abuse but also to take on board all the details of what I'm revealing is a big step, and it has taken me many years to make the decision to tell my story, but it has to be done. This type of abuse is ongoing, as is the culture of disbelief to make people dismiss anyone who talks about it. This needs to be challenged. The things I'm telling you in this book have been kept close to me all my life; I have always known that talking of them, telling my full story, would make some people incredulous - but it's true. It's all true.Whatever the set dressing, they were rapists and abusers - just plain and simple/ The trappings that surrounded the abuse was just a way of creating something that would allow them to do what they wanted to, but which would also allow for confusion on our parts, and devotion on the parts of the 'followers'. I think this is what many people find so hard when they are asked to believe in this sort of abuse. It all seems so fantastical, so it's easy to dismiss. I'm not asking you to believe in any of that. I'm not asking you to believe in Satan, I'm not even asking you to believe in God. I'm just asking you to accept that there are some people who will go to extraordinary lengths to cover up the facts that they are abusing children.

~ Laurie Matthew

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The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

~ Travis Luedke

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Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.

~ Libba Bray

Libba Bray Denial Junior Webster Miracles Mysteries

Denial forces victims to retreat in lifeless existence, dieing in the shadows of buried trauma and painful memories.

~ Trudy Metzger

Trudy Metzger Child Sexual Abuse Denial Rape Rape Culture Sexual Abuse Sexual Assault Shame Society Denial Survivor Survivors Of Abuse Trauma Traumatic Experiences Traumatized Victim Victim Blaming

I can't get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it.It is so degrading and I try to forget, it hurts so much because she is my mother.- Graham talks about being sexually abused by his mother

~ Carolyn Ainscough

Carolyn Ainscough Child Abuse Child Rape Child Sexual Abuse Denial Disgust Sexual Abuse Shame Survivor Victim

When faced with choosing between attributing their pain to “being crazy” and having had abusive parents, clients will choose “crazy” most of the time. Dora, a 38-year-old, was profoundly abused by multiple family perpetrators and has grappled with cutting and eating disordered behaviors for most of her life. She poignantly echoed this dilemma in her the

~ Lisa Ferentz

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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices, and his pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

~ Anatole France

Anatole France Denial Flattery Prejudice

The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news — things which on their own merits would get the big headlines-being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell Censorship Denial England Literary Political Psychological Social

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative, mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

~ Jessica Stern

Jessica Stern Denial Ptsd Trauma

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.p26

~ Marilyn Van Derbur

Marilyn Van Derbur Amesia Child Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Denial Dissociation Incest Trauma

Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown, 1996) contend that the controversy of delayed recall for traumatic events is likely to be influenced by sexism. Kristiansen, Gareau, Mittleholt, DeCourville, and Hovdestad (1995) found that people who were more authoritarian and who had less favorable attitudes toward women were less likely to believe in the veracity of women’s recovered memories for sexual abuse. Those who challenged the truthfulness of recovered memories were more likely to endorse negative statements about women, including the idea that battered women enjoy being abused. McFarlane and van der Kolk (1996) have noted that delayed recall in male combat veterans reported by Myers (1940) and Kardiner (1941) did not generate controversy, whereas delayed recall in female survivors of intrafamilial child sexual abuse has provoked considerable debate.

~ Rachel E. Goldsmith

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In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.

~ Aphrodite Matsakis

Aphrodite Matsakis Abuse Survivors Denial Disbelief Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Society Denial Trauma Traumatic Experiences Traumatized

Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may deny that anything bad ever happened to us. It may deny that DID exists. But that doesn't mean to say it's right. All it says is that like global warming, our histories and our stories are an inconvenient truth.

~ Carolyn Spring

Carolyn Spring Associate Denial Child Abuse Survivors Denial Dissociation Dissociative Identity Disorder Global Warming Inconvenient Inconvenient Truth It Wasn T That Bad Trauma

We distance ourselves for protection,Wear scarves when it’s cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.

~ Steve Abbott

Steve Abbott Denial Fear Life Poetry Protection Realization Trauma

You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

Ahmed Mostafa Denial Game Plan Losing Lost Love Reveal Revealed Revelation Self Deception Winning

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible, that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.” (2003, p. 26)

~ Marilyn Van Derbur

Marilyn Van Derbur Child Rape Child Sexual Abuse Day Child Denial Incest Living A Lie Night Child Rape Repressed Memory

As the incidence and fear of rape on college campuses have increased, the term rape has been generalized to mean 'misuse; diminish the effects of; steal; defeat': I just went to the mall and raped my VISA. My dad phoned this morning and raped my buzz. She raped my coat. Michigan got raped by Carolina in the NCAA final. The extension of the term rape to such contexts ameliorates the word and appears a denial on the part of college students of the seriousness of the crime.

~ Connie C. Eble

Connie C. Eble Denial Minimization Misuse Of Language Rape Society Denial

She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had suffered the physical and emotional pains of sexual abuse and whose lives were changed forever. The two cannot even be compared, yet when someone is in denial about what happened, they cannot perceive what is true. It seemed too hard for her to let her mind go there and believe her grandson could do such terrible things.

~ Erin Merryn

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Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

~ Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Denial

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk Denial

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

~ Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Denial Normal Snafu

Raffe arches his brow at me. ‘You should be with a nice human boy. One who takes your orders and puts up with your demands. Someone who dedicates his life to keeping you safe and well fed. Someone who can make you happy. Someone you can be proud of.’ He waves his hand at the Watchers. ‘There’s nobody like that in this lot.’ I glare at him. ‘I’ll be sure to pass him by you first before I’ – settle for – ‘choose him.’ ‘You do that. I’ll let him know what’s expected of him.’ ‘Assuming he survives your interrogation,’ says Howler. ‘Big assumption,’ says Cyclone. ‘I’d like to be there to watch,’ says Hawk. ‘Should be interesting.

~ Susan Ee

Susan Ee Denial Love Penryn Raffe

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

~ D.h. Lawrence

D.h. Lawrence Denial

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

~ C. Northcote Parkinson

C. Northcote Parkinson Denial Life

Maggie scoffed. Denial will not save you when Cupid's arrow find its mark.If i see Cupid anywhere in the vicinity, I'm ripping his chubby little arms off. Vanda yanked the door open to Romatech.

~ Kerrelyn Sparks

Kerrelyn Sparks Arrow Cupid Denial

If you been feeling or acting crazy, think about it perhaps you are.

~ Victoria Addino

Victoria Addino Denial Mental Awareness

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

~ Georgina Kleege

Georgina Kleege Denial

Dreams of innocence are just that, they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

~ Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Denial Hubris Innocense

Go ahead, look at the message. You know you want to.”“No, it doesn’t matter.”“Then why do you keep staring at it like it’s the last piece of food on earth?

~ Victoria Michaels

Victoria Michaels Denial

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

~ Vicki Covington

Vicki Covington Alcoholism Denial Ignoring

Why do you fight it? I whisper.Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

~ N. Michaels

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With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don't want to know.

~ Warwick Middleton

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She had locked something away,something deep inside.A truth that she had once known,but chose to forget.And she couldn't break free.So I decided to search for it.I went deep into the recess of her mindand found that secret place.And I broke in..

~ Christopher J. Nolan

Christopher J. Nolan Denial
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