“More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.” ChildrenRealProblemEventsSeriousPercentCrisisMental HealthExposedKatrinaHealth ProblemsTraumatic Events Author:Bruce D. Perry
“Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together.” ThinkingFeelsKindSometimesFeelingsTogetherBloodEventsAccidentsCousinYour Best FriendLike FamilyYour CousinTraumatic Events Author:Michael B. Jordan
“I’m Armenian, and April 24th was another commemoration of the genocide of Armenia people by Turkey. The perpetrator never admitted the crime. I was raised with that, this question: how do you actually find the truth of such a traumatic event? I'm obsessed with that issue.” PeopleIssuesEventsCrimeRaisedObsessedGenocideTurkeysAprilPerpetratorsArmeniaCommemorationTraumatic Events Author:Atom Egoyan
“I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.” MatterRealizingWonderEventsOne DayCapableWake UpDistanceSpeedEnormousSpouseComplacencyClearingUnforgivingWidthTraumatic Events Author:Tracey Garvis-Graves
“Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.” WayDealsEventsReadyReactionsTraumatic Events Author:Patricia Montandon
“Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.” YearsTwoHappensLevelsDealsEventsMaturityTwo YearsTraumatic EventsMaturity Level Book:Social Blunders: A Novel Source: Social Blunders: A Novel
“Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in the case of people who go through hugely traumatic events or suffer from brain injury or disease. Some would argue that religious conversions can have deep personality-altering effects. But these are all exceptions to the rule.” PeopleSeemsSufferingReligiousBrainCasesEffectsEventsPersonalityDiseaseArguingConversionObservationInjuryExceptionException To The RuleTraumatic EventsBrain Injury Author:Neal Stephenson