Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

~ Asa Don Brown

Asa Don Brown Childhood Psychologist Psychology Ptsd Recovery Research Resiliency Trauma

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...

~ Asa Don Brown

Asa Don Brown Childhood Psychologist Psychology Ptsd Recovery Research Resiliency Trauma

The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

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Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.

~ Steven Franssen

Steven Franssen Inner Critic Introjects Parents Psychology Trauma

Life is stress by definition.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

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Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed — they’re to be acknowledged.

~ Jennifer Lane

Jennifer Lane Acknowledgment Emotions Feelings Psychology Psychotherapy Ptsd Trauma Validation

The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.

~ Samuel Armen

Samuel Armen Memories Memory Psychology Self Sociology Trauma

Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment (Brett, 1996; Ross, 2000).

~ Rachel E. Goldsmith

Rachel E. Goldsmith Medical Model Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychology Ptsd Trauma

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

~ Asa Don Brown

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A secure attachment is the ability to bond, to develop a secure and safe base...

~ Asa Don Brown

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Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

~ Asa Don Brown

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My traumatic experience was life changing

~ Asa Don Brown

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Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...

~ Asa Don Brown

Asa Don Brown Abuse Childhood Abuse Counseling Dr Asa Don Brown Maltreatment Masking Neglect Psychology Trauma

Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview.

~ Asa Don Brown

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Healthy people have healthy boundaries. Unhealthy people, well, let’s not get into that. It’s like this: some people have walls which means they let no one in. This equals unhealthy. Some people let everyone in and let themselves be stepped all over. This equals unhealthy.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Benjamin Alire Sáenz Boundaries Psychology Trauma

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

~ Bruce D. Perry

Bruce D. Perry Empathy Psychology Trauma

Being in a state of denial is auniversally human response tosituations which threaten tooverwhelm. People who were abusedas children sometimes carry theirdenial like precious cargo without aport of destination. It enabled us tosurvive our childhood experiences, and often we still live in survival mode decades beyond the actual abuse. We protect ourselves to excess because we learned abruptly and painfully that no one else would.

~ Sarah E. Olson

Sarah E. Olson Abuse Survivor Child Abuse Defense Defense Mechanism Denial Protection Psychology Repression Secret Secret History Self Protection Survival Survivor Trauma Traumatic Memories Traumatic Stress Victim

Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience consciously. This problem has been around since the beginning of time, but it is especially acute in early childhood where, because of the immaturity of the psyche and/or brain, we are ill-equipped to metabolize our experience. An infant or young child who is abused, violated or seriously neglected by a caretaking adult is overwhelmed by intolerable affects that are impossible for it to metabolize, much less understand or even think about.

~ Donald Kalsched

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Dissociation is the ultimate form of human response to chronic developmental stress, because patients with dissociative disorders report the highest frequency of childhood abuse and/or neglect among all psychiatric disorders. The cardinal feature of dissociation is a disruption in one or more mental functions. Dissociative amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, identity confusion, and identity alterations are core phenomena of dissociative psychopathology which constitute a single dimension characterized by a spectrum of severity.Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience 2014 Dec; 12(3): 171-179The Many Faces of Dissociation: Opportunities for Innovative Research in Psychiatry

~ Verdat Sar

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Memory is dynamic, it's alive.

~ Ari Folman

Ari Folman Memory Psychology Trauma

Caring for others tends to be the first cut when we review our personal time budget. It does not necessarily fulfill the goals of my ambition; it will not pave the way for my success; it takes away from my own depleted emotional resources. It is an imposition in every way. To some of us, it is an inconvenience from which we unashamedly run. We have become experts in maintaining a grand scope of friendships and amateurs in genuine intimacy and care. Unwittingly, we have sacrificed everything on the altar of self-sufficiency—only to discover that we have sold our souls to isolation.

~ Sandy Oshiro Rosen

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Century after century, the belief that an individual’s physical health was independent of his or her emotional health has so dominated medical thought that there has even been open contempt for anyone who would dare to claim that a person’s physical well-being is the sum of its internal and external influences.

~ Sandy Oshiro Rosen

Sandy Oshiro Rosen Anxiety Art Care Community Dance Depression Fear Grief Loss Mind Body Psychology Sorrow Spirituality Stress Trauma Well Being Wellness

Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.

~ Marlene Steinberg

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Community is about sharing my life, about allowing the chaos of another’s circumstances to infringe on mine, about permitting myself to be known without constraint, about resigning myself to needing others.

~ Sandy Oshiro Rosen

Sandy Oshiro Rosen Anxiety Art Care Community Dance Depression Fear Grief Loss Mind Body Psychology Sorrow Spirituality Stress Trauma Well Being Wellness

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his or her daily life. That becomes the job of at least one ANP [apparently normal part of the personality], whom the child creates to be unaware of the abuse and also of the multiplicity, and to “pass as normal” in the real world. The ANP is just an alter specialized for handling the adult world—in other words, the “front person” for the system.

~ Alison Miller

Alison Miller Amnesia Child Abuse Dissociated Dissociative Identity Disorder Incest Mental Disorder Mpd Multiple Personalities Psychology Repressed Memories Split Personality Survival Trauma

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Child Abuse Childhood Trauma Origin Philosophy Psychohistory Psychology Trauma Violence

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Childhood Trauma False Self Psychology Self Esteem Self Knowledge Therapy Trauma

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

~ John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Abuse Healing Psychology Toxic Toxic Shame Trauma

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Childhood Defense Freedom Healing Healthy Psychology Toxic People Trauma Well Being

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Child Abuse Humanity Neurolinguistics Philosophy Psycholinguistics Psychology Trauma

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Freedom Liberation Philosophy Psychology Self Knowledge Trauma

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Abusers Child Abuse Psychology Trauma

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Child Abuse Cycle Of Violence Parenting Philosophy Psychology Trauma

The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Mindfulness Philosophy Psychology Rationality Self Esteem Trauma

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.

~ Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein Attachment Child Depression Psychoanalysis Psychology Suffering Trauma

Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult or contradictory) and another in which we have no idea of what we are saying. In this second level of speaking there are repeating words, phrases, and even sounds that function as magnets of unconscious meaning, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas. He called such markers in speech 'signifiers.

~ Annie Rogers

Annie Rogers Psychoanalysis Psychology Trauma

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Child Abuse Mental Health Mental Illness Psychology Psychotherapy Trauma Truth

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Psychology Self Knowledge Trauma

Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us to survive the experience fairly intact, that is, without becoming psychotic or frying out one of the brain centers. The cost of this blown circuit is emotion frozen within the body. In other words, we often unconsciously stop feeling our trauma partway into it, like a movie that is still going after the sound has been turned off. We cannot heal until we move fully through that trauma, including all the feelings of the event.

~ Susan Pease Banitt

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