“In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.” IfsArtistChildhoodHavensAmountTwentiesTraumaYour ChildrenComplexity Author:Jeremy Sisto
“These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.” ShouldBookLeftForgetChildhoodEffectsPicksTraumaThese DaysExpertsGreat MenChildhood Trauma Author:Peter Straub
“I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point.” WayTryingMayPersonsRealFactsIndividualJourneyChildhoodCommitmentScaredTraumaReal LifePsychologicalStay TrueObliviousArchetypeInsensitive Author:Romany Malco
“My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.” IfsSelfWantedMotherWinningIssuesChildhoodTraumaIf I CouldPageantBeauty Pageant Author:Pam Grier
“Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?” PeopleYearsEnoughPastChildhoodCoupleThousandLettersRaisedTraumaViolentMailAlcoholics Author:Dean Koontz
“I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"” PeopleFeelsWritingTryingReasonMomentsBodyPastSexChildhoodComfortableTraumaLawyerInstanceJournalismPlentyReason WhyNurseOur PastYour PastStrippingSex Work Author:Craig Seymour
“Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.” ChildrenHelpingChildhoodMental HealthTraumaProphecyDoomResilientChildhood Trauma Author:Richard Bentall
“There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when I'm lost, I just feel like somewhere along the line, if you've gone through any childhood trauma, it makes you lose your essence and it takes a while to get that back. There are certain things about that that push my buttons.” IfsFeelsCertainLostLosesLinesDealsGoneChildhoodEssenceTraumaUncomfortableButtonsChildhood TraumaDefine You Author:Mike Ness
“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.” PeopleWayNeedsTwoDifferentHelpingPassionFunChildhoodTypePercentAreasThirdsAddictionDefinitionsIllnessTraumaPunishmentMental IllnessSevereBetter WaysCoping Author:Maia Szalavitz
“I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there are so many ruptures and disturbances in childhood that imprint themselves on us. Attachment begets trauma, in that broader sense, and so if we've ever been dependent on anyone, I think there is an Imago blueprint in us somewhere.” IfsThinkingViolenceChildhoodTraumaDependentTreatmentAttachmentAbandonmentBegetsDisturbanceBlueprintsChildhood TraumaRuptureMolestation Author:Melissa Febos
“I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a way of life. I believe this persistent feeling comes from childhood traumas that stripped away my power. The effect, though, the resulting persistent desire to stretch out of confinement even when confinement is inevitable, is a gift.” ThinkingTryingBelieveFeelingsDesireI BelieveChildhoodTraumaInevitablePersistent Author:Dawn Lundy Martin
“We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We seem to prefer to find excuses - which are really nothing more than the embrace of determinism, a sort of Stockholm syndrome relative to whatever we can claim as limitation. I am fascinated by the more enabling self-understanding. It has helped me to find my way out of the cloying comforts that are offered by prevalent psychological models.” ChildhoodComfortEmbraceExcuseTraumaPsychologicalMy WayLimitationRelativePassiveDeterminism Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.” IfsBookHappenedChildhoodTraumaDisappointed Author:Jodi Picoult
“Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.” WayResultsEmotionChildhoodRaisedTraumaHardshipUnhealthyThoughts And Emotions Author:Steven Seagal
“The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.” KnowsWantLooksJoyGirlThreeHoursBehindsHalfWatchesForeverChildhoodSweetMeetingsTraumaBarsJailChildhood Trauma Book:Choke: A Novel Source: Choke: A Novel
“You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303” SpiritSufferingFoundCausesImaginationLossLevelsNovelChildhoodConditionsCenturyEmotionalBenefitsLowsRainConstitutionCrisisDeeperTraumaWanderAppetiteSymptomsAdequateHeroinesWearinessYour FavoriteFreezingAilmentsPolioTuberculosisFaintingLiving ConditionsEmotional Trauma Author:Diane Setterfield