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Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they have to be. — John Conrad

Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers]. — Alice Winocour

Congratulations for conquering PTSD. And now you're fucked. — David Finkel

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner. — Judith Lewis Herman

The world has PTSD. It is a veteran with a blown mind, having flashbacks as it begs the Sun for one more go-round. — Carl-John X. Veraja

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space. — Asa Don Brown

You know, it set you at war with yourself. — Elizabeth Wein

It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said.
Safer? He didn't realize.
I was already dead. — Ruta Sepetys

Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Trauma can have a masking effect. — Asa Don Brown

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says. — Anna Funder

Pigpen got excited because he made me grin when he told me that he thought PTSD stood for Probably There's Something wrong but Dunno what. — Katie McGarry

What if I lose what little control I have left? I may live in a prison now, but at least I know my way around it. — Nicole Deese

I'm a stranger behind the same set of eyes that the girl in the photo holds. — Amanda Steele

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone... — Asa Don Brown

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment. — Judith Lewis Herman

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later. — Erin Merryn

Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals. — Tom Glenn

If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will — Stanley Victor Paskavich

You know being and ex serviceman and a Disabled Gulf War Veteran. You could play Taps on a Jews Harp and I'd still cry — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there ... — Robert Cormier

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war. — Dito Montiel

Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops. — Clint Van Winkle

Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after. — S. Kelley Harrell

...People - the ones who are left behind - desire answers. Even when we are advised from beyond the grave not to pursue them. — Marguerite Kaye

Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable. — Aphrodite Matsakis

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do. — Alex London

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific ... — Asa Don Brown

Worry only about what you control. The rest is war. — Matthew J. Hefti

He tried hard to forget the images of war that now began to haunt him. — Jason Medina

I'm Bipolar with PTSD without medication my mind wouldn't be free ... Medication works for me but not for everyone — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD. — Jane Leavy

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid. — Michael Connelly

The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us. — James Garbarino

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others. — Stephanie S. Covington

Seeing you with that guy tonight made me nuts, because every bone in my body says you're mine. — J.M. Stewart

Killing is the ultimate refutation of our own humanity. — Kevin Sites

It was her turn to hold him up. — J.M. Stewart

Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep. — Trish Doller

Pain, torture or trauma cause bipolar and PTSD
and once you have it's hard to get free — Stanley Victor Paskavich

When I have flash backs from PTSD I wish my mind came with a delete key. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ... — Muse

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I'm not ashamed of my illness. I've been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character. — Taya Kyle

When PTSD victims shut down, they appear void of all emotion and expression, but all the while they conceal a simmering fury deep within them. — Nigel W.D. Mumford

The medical professionals should fight PTSD at every cost for those living in pain and the battles they've lost. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse. — Lee Ann Hoff

Childhood trauma does not come in one single package. — Asa Don Brown

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework ... — Asa Don Brown

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back. — Anna Funder

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event. — Asa Don Brown

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted. — Stefan Molyneux

The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left. — Matthew J. Hefti

Taran. We go down fighting. — Elizabeth Wein

Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

No matter how bad your life gets if you Execute yourself it won't get better! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

We don't heal in isolation, but in community. — S. Kelley Harrell

Big Hug's Y'all!! — Fifi Frost

SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country. — Max Martini

You'll never see my books on Vanity Fair I'm not the type of author they would want there — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The truth will set you free! — Linda Diane Wattley

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse. — Sara Novic

The problem with having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse. — Tiffany Madison

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though. — Suzanne Collins

Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there — Stanley Victor Paskavich

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim's response. — David Yeung

For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do. — Matthew J. Hefti

There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding — Stanley Victor Paskavich

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not. — Lara Logan

PTSD will be the worlds greatest horror for those that survive an all out Nuclear War. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Apparently PTSD and grief flunked out of the same charm school; neither of them seems to know when it's cool to drop by. — Mishell Baker

Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium. — Amanda Steele

Life is stress by definition. — Rebecca McNutt

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon

You are not broken and in need of fixing. You are wounded and in need of healing. — Danu Morrigan

I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical. — Sara Novic

You die a little inside every time you have joyless sex. Neurons prune back. The good in there withers. And some things never grow back. — Hugh Howey

Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other. — Stephanie S. Covington

Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose. — Hugh Howey

PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency. — Romeo Dallaire

It [treating trauma] may even cause you to reconsider some of your previous views of the world and to revise your sociopolitical perspectives. — Aphrodite Matsakis

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. — Dale Archer

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers. — Barbara Lee

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. — Judith Lewis Herman

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency. — S. Kelley Harrell

We've got some PTSD vets," Sarah says, making it sound like she's keeping them in jars somewhere. — Phil Klay

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial — Frank M. Ochberg

Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed - they're to be acknowledged. — Jennifer Lane

PTSD: It's the big game. You're wearing a helmet and pads. You make the big play and turn to the crowd, but no one is there, — Peggy Randall-Martin

I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming. — Stephanie S. Covington

Tears of my own begin to mix in with the raindrops, but I tell myself that the sky cries to show us that we can too. — Amanda Steele

The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently. — Jodi Picoult

You're not the same. You're not supposed to be the same. You're supposed to be different. This isn't something you will ever forget. — Daisy Whitney