Traumatization and Its Aftermath Quotes

“A leader is the one others want to follow and not the one that make other come behind.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Fear may be more hurtful than the wounds inflicted by the very things you fear, as it shapes your responses, perpetuating the internal struggle to survive a perhaps fictitious enemy.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Traumatization can be prevented early in the process or resolved at any point during the struggle if the individual encountering or experiencing the traumatic event intervenes and regains confidence in surviving or feeling safe.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Traumatization can be prevented early in the process, or resolved at any point during the struggle if the one encountering or experiencing the traumatic event intervenes and regains confidence.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Being traumatized means operating under a new program, a maladaptive one that keeps the body anticipating danger in a very subjective way, malfunctioning, with a lack of internal equilibrium, and focused on survival.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“It's the person's subjective perception of danger that determines whether an incident is traumatizing or not.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“An event only becomes 'traumatizing' at a specific point: when we are personally affected by it—whether in actuality or perception.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Anything, be it an action, event, or circumstance, is considered traumatic if it has the potential to jeopardize one's life or physical, mental, and social well-being. This assessment relies on the subjectivity of each individual.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Traumatic is whatever action, event, or circumstance has the potential to jeopardize one's life or physical/mental/social unity. An appraisal that depends on the subjectivity of each one of us.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“The stories we tell ourselves inform our emotional responses, and they can actually become mental realities.
Trauma centrality builds up our stories around unfortunate occurrences. Trauma may become our mental reality until we rewrite it, making it less prominent”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Trauma is not an artificial concept. Trauma is a very real and complex psychological and physiological phenomena studied and understood within the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and related disciplines, and it is recognized as a significant aspect of human experience.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“The greatest misunderstanding that we confront every day in the mental health arena is thinking all emotional wounds are trauma.
The greatest risk we face is not knowing that we can play an active role in our healing no matter the size of the wound.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Trauma may be a new subject in psychology, but its repercussions are centuries old.
As society becomes more aware of its impact, we must actively take responsibility and make profound changes in the way we think, treat, and mitigate the consequences of psychological struggles.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Each one of us is truly distinct, with unique and subjective experiences. This subjectivity plays a crucial role in traumatization. People can have different reactions to the same occurrence, with one person finding an event devastating while another might consider it uneventful.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“To comprehend 'trauma,' one must differentiate the origin of distress, identify the internal and external factors that influenced the system during the struggle for survival, and assess the extent of the consequences.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“A trauma disorder unfolds from the severe stress that crushes one’s hopes, defined by an extremeness that goes beyond tolerable.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“The reason people differ in whether they become traumatized or not depends on what I refer to as 'traumatizing agents'—factors that amplify and prolong survival responses, ultimately leading to dysfunction.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Trauma is phenomena that refers to the effects of the activation of the innate survival circuits designed to protect the individual from the possibility of dying after a severe reaction to a threatening occurrence.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Trauma can be defined in terms of the relationship you establish with what happened to you.
It involves the way you integrate the experience into your life story, the beliefs you hold about yourself and the world, and the internal dynamics you develop in response to the circumstances.
Happiness could be defined exactly the same way!”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Traumatization is the dreadful period where the individual’s system tries to overcome risk or adversity to safeguard its continuous operation.
In other words, it's the struggle for survival.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Being emotionally hurt is frequent but long-lasting damage from being emotionally hurt is not.
Being traumatized is not necessarily the result of emotional hurt.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Trauma can be defined in terms of the relationship you establish with an event.
Becoming traumatized depends on how your system responds to the way you perceive, interpret, and interact with the events you experience as overwhelming/shocking/threatening.
Trauma is not the event itself!”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Feeling attached to someone gives us the comforting knowledge that someone holds the essence of who we are in their thoughts, carrying us in their mental space with love and understanding”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“The mind and the brain are part of the system that governs our mental health and we are just starting to understand that the mind and brain are not the same.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Most definitions we talk about in psychology are speculations, theories, and propositions. Definitions come and go. Terms change meaning. Statements and theories are discredited. Popular conversations make up words and adopt them as truths. Being open to this fact is the way keep learning.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Trauma is not just a term, it's a complex phenomenon with multiple components, from cause to effect.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath

“Trauma as causal is what puts us at risk, trauma as the effect of that experience is what makes us unwell. Trauma as phenomena is every mental occurrence in between.”
― Antonieta Contreras, Traumatization and Its Aftermath