“We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present.” MindPsychologyMental HealthTraumaPtsd Author:Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
“Medications can be very useful in giving traumatized people a firmer foothold in the present, but they do not teach the lasting lessons of self-regulation. Most of us in the trauma field have seen how a reliance on drugs alone does little to alter the core issues of trauma.” Mental HealthSelf Regulation Book:The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“If you do something to a patient that you would not do to your friends or children, consider whether you are unwittingly replicating a trauma from the patient’s past.” Mental HealthPsych Ward Book:The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma