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    “Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, "He fought so hard." And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.”
    ― Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
    tags: depression, suicide
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    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're "not at all like yourself but will be soon," but you know you won't.”
    ― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
    tags: bipolar, depression, illness
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    Jenny Lawson
    “When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
    ― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
    tags: depressed, depression, fear, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, recovery, recovery-quotes, shame, stigma, stigmatized, survivors
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    Judith Lewis Herman
    “Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom.

    But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships.

    She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”
    ― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-suffering, childhood-trauma
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    Danielle Bernock
    “Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”
    ― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals
    tags: captive, childhood-trauma, emotional-abuse, freedom, healing, healing-the-emotional-self, invalidate, lies, love, love-heals, marginalized, pain, ptsd, screams, screams-of-agony, silent-pain, trauma, validation
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    Alice Miller
    “Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”
    ― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
    tags: childhood-trauma, individual, truth
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    Asa Don Brown
    “Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.”
    ― Asa Don Brown
    tags: child-abuse, child-trauma, childhood, childhood-abuse, childhood-trauma, childhood-traumas, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, psychologist, psychology, ptsd, recovery, research, resiliency, trauma
    58 likes

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    Stefan Molyneux
    “I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: abuse, childhood-abuse, freedom, philosophy, psychology, self-esteem, self-knowledge, society, trauma
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  • #9
    Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable
    “Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness.”
    ― Judith Spencer, Satan's High Priest
    tags: abuse, amnesia, child-abuse, childhood-trauma, dissociation, dissociative-amnesia, dissociative-disorders, dissociative-identity-disorder, madness, memory, memory-loss, mental-health, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, repressing-emotions, repression, ritual-abuse, trauma
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    Mateo Sol
    “The sad thing that many of us empaths don’t realize is that often our desire to heal others is a disguised cry for help for our own healing. Because many of us weren’t taught how to value or nurture ourselves at a young age, we tend to unconsciously seek out our own healing in the healing of others.”
    ― Mateo Sol, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
    tags: childhood-trauma, empath, empaths, healer, highly-sensitive-people, intuition, nurturing, self-esteem, sensitivity
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    Jeanne McElvaney
    “Dissociated trauma memories don't reveal themselves like ordinary memories. Like pieces of a puzzle, they escape the primitive part of our brain where the trauma has been stored without words.

    These starkly vivid and detailed images are defined by our five senses and emotions, but there is no 'story'. So we are left trying to comprehend the incomprehensible while trying to describe what doesn't make sense.

    Healing is about collecting as many pieces as possible. It's finding words for what we are seeing and feeling - even when it sounds crazy. It's daring to speak our truth until it makes sense.”
    ― Jeanne McElvaney, Spirit Unbroken: Abby's Story
    tags: abuse-recovery, abuse-survivors, childhood-abuse, childhood-sexual-abuse, effects-of-child-abuse, gotospirit-com, harrietta-s-happenstance, healing-abuse, jeanne-mcelvaney, spirit-unbroken-abby-s-story, survivors-of-abuse
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  • #12
    Aaron Lauritsen
    “True friends don't come with conditions.”
    ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
    tags: 100-days-drive, 100daysdrive, acceptance, accomplish, adventure, ambition, author, awakening, be-happy, be-proud, believe, bestrong, bestseller, bohemian, break-barriers, carma, chances, change, chase-dreams, cherish, coming-of-age, compassion, competition, confidence, conquer, conquer-fear, content, control-your-life, courage, crossroads, destiny, determination, dig-deep, don-t-give-up, don-t-worry-be-happy, dream-big, dreamer, empower, energy, enjoy-life, explore, faith, fearless, find-yourself, follow-your-dreams, follow-your-heart, follow-your-own-path, forgive, free, freedom, fresh-start, friendship, goal-setting, goals, goals-in-life, good-soul, gratitude, happiness, heal, high-road, hope, humanity, humility, inner-beauty, inner-strength, inspiration, journey, joy, judgement, laugh, learn, liberate, liberating, life, life-lessons, light, limitless, live-life-quotes, love-thy-neighbor, love-thyself, love-yourself, loyalty, luck, memoir, never-quit, no-regrets, nomad, one-life, open-road, opportunity, parenthood, perspective, positive-thinking, power, pride, push-limits, quote-of-the-day, quotes, reflections, resiliency, respect, risk-taking, road-trip, satisfaction, service-to-others, smile, soar, soul-food, spirituality, start-all-over, staystrong, strength, struggle, success, teamwork, thick-skin, think-outside-the-box, travel, truth, values, wander, wanderlust, wateroffaducksback, writer
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    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
    tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
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    C.G. Jung
    “As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
    tags: childhood, psychology
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    John Connolly
    “For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
    ― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
    tags: adulthood, childhood
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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    L.R. Knost
    “It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
    ― L.R. Knost, Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages
    tags: childhood, children, inspirational-quotes, motherhood, parenting
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    Albert Einstein
    “Play is the highest form of research.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: childhood, education
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: childhood, inspirational, rites-of-passage
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    Fred Rogers
    “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
    ― Fred Rogers
    tags: communication, fear, friendship, inspirational, trauma, trust
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97)”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
    tags: avoidance, body, feelings, numb, numbness, sense-of-safety, trauma, traumatic, traumatized
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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  • #23
    Yasmin Mogahed
    “Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.”
    ― Yasmin Mogahed
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  • #24
    Arthur Golden
    “After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: fear, trauma
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
    tags: community, healing, isolation, ptsd, shamanism, support, trauma
    171 likes



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