Traumas Quotes

“SELFHOOD AND DISSOCIATION
The patient with DID or dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) has used their capacity to psychologically remove themselves from repetitive and inescapable traumas in order to survive that which could easily lead to suicide or psychosis, and in order to eke some growth in what is an unsafe, frequently contradictory and emotionally barren environment.

For a child dependent on a caregiver who also abuses her, the only way to maintain the attachment is to block information about the abuse from the mental mechanisms that control attachment and attachment behaviour.10 Thus, childhood abuse is more likely to be forgotten or otherwise made inaccessible if the abuse is perpetuated by a parent or other trusted caregiver.

In the dissociative individual, ‘there is no uniting self which can remember to forget’. Rather than use repression to avoid traumatizing memories, he/she resorts to alterations in the self ‘as a central and coherent organization of experience. . . DID involves not just an alteration in content but, crucially, a change in the very structure of consciousness and the self’ (p. 187).29 There may be multiple representations of the self and of others.

Middleton, Warwick. "Owning the past, claiming the present: perspectives on the treatment of dissociative patients." Australasian Psychiatry 13.1 (2005): 40-49.”
― Warwick Middleton

“Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.”
― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

“Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.”
― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

“Dramas são inevitáveis. No fundo, não importam muito. O que conta é como conseguimos superá-los. Você não supera seu drama ao se recusar a comemorar o Dia de Ação de Graças. Pelo contrário, se afunda ainda mais. Precisa parar com isso, Marcus. Você tem família, amigos. Quero que volte a comemorar o Dia de Ação de Graças. Prometa isso para mim.”
― Joël Dicker, Le Livre des Baltimore

“Los malos se vuelven buenos al final de la vida. Eso está ya muy visto. Pero es lo que tienen los viejos. Que despistan. Que despiertan una compasión que a lo mejor no merecen. (...) Por eso a mi cuando se me sienta un abuelo al lado y me empieza a dar la brasa con su soledad, le digo: un momento, señor, que yo también tengo muchos traumas".”
― Elvira Lindo, Una palabra tuya

“If you are right, then everything we learned before and all the books we have, are wrong", said my students of biology in a class on academic writing, with expressions of trauma at what I was telling them. "But we use the same books as the students in the United States" they continued, trying to stop themselves from seeing the obvious truth. Because for those who have lived an entire life as a lie, the truth is indeed traumatic. You need a very high level of sanity to confront it, which is why I find it to be a funny coincidence when the crazy ones tell you that you are crazy for seeing the truth that they themselves are too afraid to analyze. They don't want to analyze it because, well, they may realize that the truth is true. They can't deal with such outcome. They would rather see you dead first.”
― Dan Desmarques

“So many experiences have passed in my life that thinking about them now fills me with fear.”
― Wajid Shaikh, Sukoon