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“People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.”

People World Soul Suffering Natural Moral Rate Soldier Trauma Disaster Combat Symptoms Ptsd Atrocities Natural Disaster Depraved

Author:David Brooks

“We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.”

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Author:James D'arcy

“I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.”

Ifs Children Persons Levels Study Higher Suicide Soldier Iraq Ptsd Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:Mia Bloom

“When my own son is going through what he goes through, coming back, I can certainly relate with other families, who kind of fill these ramifications of some PTSD.”

Kind I Can My Own Son Relate Ptsd Coming Back Ramifications

Author:Sarah Palin

“I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.”

War Reality Stuff Violence Mets Soldier Description Impressed Symptoms Ptsd Coming Back Impossibility Outburst

Author:Alice Winocour

“I had experience with PTSD myself; probably that's why I felt so close to the soldiers and the testimony. Also, because I had experienced this myself, I wanted to make a really physical and carnal film.”

Wanted Film Felt Soldier Testimony Ptsd

Author:Alice Winocour

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

Felt Soldier Exposed Ptsd

Author:Alice Winocour

“Most people may not realize the tremendous value that therapy/companion/comfort animals have for the purposes of easing the suffering of those with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), particularly within the military.”

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Author:Ken Wahl

“I'm not a doctor, nor am I a member of the military. What I am is an appreciative, concerned American citizen, who was horrified when I heard about the horrendous rates of suicide (22 per day) and PTSD/TBI within our military. As such, I felt compelled to reach out to anyone who cared to listen, to try to help with this terrible situation. This is not just life and death - it is life and death for those who defend our freedom.”

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Author:Ken Wahl

“I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.”

Feels Wells War Jobs Artist Meditation Hip Hop Hips Hops Veteran Ptsd Dharma Inmates War Veteran Hip Hop Artist

Author:Russell Simmons

“These are things that we hear from military families everywhere we go. But it - on PTSD, the thing that I want to make sure people understand is that the vast majority of veterans and military families aren't dealing with any kind of mental health. But there are - these are what are called the invisible wounds of this war. And many times they don't present.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“We got a commitment that 3 million nurses are going to be trained to better identify these signs [of PTSD], because, you know, when these troops come home and they become veterans and they go back into the civilian community, they're not always going through the VA system for medical care. They're going to show up at community hospitals and clinics.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.”

Thinking Feels Looks Mean Doe Stills Stories Jobs Remember Alive Objects Needed Horror Standards Civilized Nerves Steady Ptsd Success Stories

Author:Pat Barker

“You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.”

Soul Band Mental Health Aids Mental Illness Wounded Ptsd Patches Band Aid

Book:The Black Echo

Source: The Black Echo

“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”

Persons Self Left Sadness Habit Skills Despair Wake Up Useless Destructive Strongest Electric Shells Terrified Ptsd

Author:Peter Straub

“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.”

People Doe Seems Process Mines Fit Anxiety Flow Trauma Narrative Plot Ptsd

Author:Jessica Stern

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

Concerned Suicide Rate Soldier Ptsd Incidents

Author:Barbara Lee

“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.”

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Book:Home to Holly Springs

Source: Home to Holly Springs

“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.”

Ifs Humans Self Moments Seems Might Danger Return Permanent Preservation Ptsd Self Preservation Traumatic Experiences

Book:Trauma and recovery

Source: Trauma and recovery

“Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.”

Earth Hell Trauma Ptsd Hell On Earth

Author:Peter A. Levine

“One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has higher rates of PTSD? Women who have escaped prostitution. That tells me that the war that men wage against women is actually worse than the wars they wage against each other.”

People Knows Men Has Beens War Groups Higher Rate Soldier Combat Ptsd Prostitution

Author:Lierre Keith

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

People Knows Real Hard Character Core Ptsd

Author:Taya Kyle

“You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.”

Book Stories Reading Hearing Ptsd

Author:Dale Archer

“You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.”

Certain Individual Emotion Brain Forever Conditions Events Evidence Chemistry Ptsd Triggers Traumatic Events

Author:Dale Archer

“In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.”

People Thinking Persons Sometimes Talking Position Authority Addresses Ptsd Avenues

Author:Stana Katic

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