114 quotes found
“It is through that brokenness that we find courage and strength. It is what empowers us to do great things.”
“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be more obtainable within the NHS; people's lives should be pla...”
“Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.”
“Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55”
“Dissociation, a form of hypnotic trance, helps children survive the abuseThe abuse takes on a dream-like, surreal quality and deadened feelings and altered perceptions add to the strangeness. The w...”
“This isn't normal. This isn't how normal people think. Fuck off, world- what the hell is normal anyway?”
“As I discussed in the previous chapter, attachment researchers have shown that our earliest caregivers don't only feed us, dress us, and comfort us when we are upset; they shape the way our rapidly...”
“Survivors are often good at both resolving and generating crisis. While this capacity to handle crisis can make you a good emergency room worker or ambulance driver, it can also be a way for you to...”
“Youre too sensitive victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them th...”
“Without trauma-informed treatment, traumatized clients may not respond optimally and they may even be re-traumatized by the mental health system if they are labeled as treatment resistant because t...”
“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood within the context of trauma. A traumatic stress reaction consi...”
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can do the same with the causes and reality of dissociation and multipl...”
“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...”
“Shame evokes anxiety about what will happen if someone really knows is, but, because it is impossible to for anxiety and anger to be felt simultaneously, we can dream our anxiety by employing anger...”
“Healthy people understand that others have the capacity to choose to end relationships and it serves as motivation for them to learn to relate inhealthy and loving ways.However, when we are driven ...”
“The more we get attached to any relationship, the more we lose the grip on our emotional freedom.”
“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 mult...”
“There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.”
“Many of us learned that keeping busykept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the ways we busied ourselvesbecoming overachievers & workaholicsas self esteemBut whenever our inner fe...”
“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...”
