If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. “Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.

~ Marilyn Van Derbur

Marilyn Van Derbur Anxiety Belief Quotes Beliefs Chronic Pain Depression Physical Pain Physical Problems Somatic Somatic Experience Survivor Survivors Survivors Of Abuse Trauma Trauma Healing Trauma Survivors Traumatized

Survivors who don’t stand up for themselves often develop physical and emotional illnesses. Many become depressed because they feel so hopeless and helpless about being able to change their lives. They turn their anger inward and become prone to headaches, muscle tension, nervous conditions and insomnia.

~ Beverly Engel

Beverly Engel Abuse Survivors Anger Control Complex Ptsd Depression Headaches Helpless Helplessness Hopeless Insomnia Somatic Survivors Survivors Of Abuse

All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small ticking time bombs—they are illnesses in incubation.

~ Marilyn Van Derbur

Marilyn Van Derbur Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Emotions Incest Physical Pain Physical Problems Repressed Emotions Somatic Somatic Therapy Survivor Survivor Of Abuse Survivors Of Abuse Trauma Trauma Experiences Trauma Survivor Traumatied

This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides Brain Chemical Marriage Plot Melancholy Mental Health Mental Illness Somatic

Somatic Symptoms:People with Complex PTSD often have medical unexplained physical symptoms such as abdominal pains, headaches, joint and muscle pain, stomach problems, and elimination problems. These people are sometimes most unfortunately mislabeled as hypochondriacs or as exaggerating their physical problems. But these problems are real, even though they may not be related to a specific physical diagnosis. Some dissociative parts are stuck in the past experiences that involved pain may intrude such that a person experiences unexplained pain or other physical symptoms. And more generally, chronic stress affects the body in all kinds of ways, just as it does the mind. In fact, the mind and body cannot be separated. Unfortunately, the connection between current physical symptoms and past traumatizing events is not always so clear to either the individual or the physician, at least for a while. At the same time we know that people who have suffered from serious medical, problems. It is therefore very important that you have physical problems checked out, to make sure you do not have a problem from which you need medical help.

~ Suzette Boon

Suzette Boon Complex Ptsd Dissociative Identity Disorder Hypochondriac Medical Physical Ptsd Somatic Survivors Trauma

The symptomatology of PTSD.In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims. Again and again they relieve the life-threatening experiences they suffered, reacting in mind and body as though such events were still occurring. PTSD is a complex psychobiological condition.

~ Babette Rothschild

Babette Rothschild Flashbacks Mind Body Physical Ptsd Somatic The Body Remembers Trauma Trauma Memory Traumatic