Best Trauma Bond Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain

“Sometimes I wish I had no empathy, not so it would hurt others, but so it wouldn't hurt me.”

“Sometimes, you lose somebody to find that love is meant to return home. And now, as I gather the ashes, I know I will live and love again, but this time, it will be me who stands in the center of that flame. This time, that love will be mine.”

Love Relationships Healing Reflection Trauma Manipulation Emotional Abuse Narcissistic Abuse Trauma Bond Blame Shifting

Book:In the Darkness of Shards: Poems from a Broken Place

Source: In the Darkness of Shards: Poems from a Broken Place

“Chris's apartment was like a time capsule, and every time I stepped through the door I became one of its many preserved fixtures, reprising my role as the submissive starry-eyed girl, again and again and again.”

Psychology Trauma Toxic Relationships Grooming Stockholm Syndrome Coercive Control Trauma Bond Abuse By Teacher Child Sexual Grooming

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance

“Memories of Chris were like songs I couldn't get out of my head, a greatest hits album that played in a never ending loop morning, afternoon, and night.”

Memories Psychology Mental Health Ptsd Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Cognitive Dissonance Stockholm Syndrome Stuck In The Past Trauma Bond

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance

“Something was wrong, and I didn't know how to explain it in a way anyone would understand. It was as if there was an invisible thread between me and Chris, connecting us, and it didn't matter that he was over a thousand miles away in Florida. He was with me everywhere I went, invading my mind and body, stealing the life I could have had.”

Psychology Mental Health Trauma Mental Illness Ptsd Survivors Of Abuse Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Stockholm Syndrome Trauma Bond

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance

“I told Ian, "When I think of sexual assault, I think of a child lying in their bed and someone coming into their room at night." Ian's voice hardened. "I think of a girl being locked in a band room by her teacher.”

Child Sexual Abuse Grooming Cognitive Dissonance Stockholm Syndrome Trauma Bond Child Sexual Grooming Sexual Grooming Groomed By Teacher Sexual Assault By Teacher

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance

“Becca hesitated, as if contemplating a move on a chessboard. "Do you know what Stockholm syndrome is?”

Therapy Sexual Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Therapist Stockholm Syndrome Trauma Bond Chessboard Abuse By Teacher

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance

“She was the soft voice telling me to lie down in traffic. And I wanted to. God, I wanted to.”

Dark Romance Toxic Love Trauma Bond Forbidden Desire Emotional Manipulation Poetic Despair Haunting Affection Psychological Obsession Romantic Destruction Suicidal Longing

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind..... you'll see that. -Caleb”

Attachment Manipulation Caleb Stockholm Syndrome Trauma Bond

Book:Seduced in the Dark

Source: Seduced in the Dark

“Once someone has been traumatized again and again by someone who claimed to love them, once an abuser has warped the victim's reality and caused him or her to mistrust their perceptions through gaslighting, once a victim has been made to believe he or she is worthless, they are already traumatically bonded to their abusers. It takes a great deal of professional support, validation and resources in order for victims to detach from their abusers and begin to heal.”

Narcissistic Abuse Trauma Bond

Book:Power: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse

Source: Power: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse

“I interpreted his heartbeat to be some sort of Morse code for his feelings, but maybe I was imagining substance where there was only air.”

Toxic Relationships Grooming Stockholm Syndrome Coercive Control Trauma Bond Abuse By Teacher

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance

“What about parents who traumatize their children and then tell them to get over it...”

Mental Health Trauma Trauma Survivors Mental Health Advocate Trauma Bond Trauma Bonding Generational Curse

Author:Niedria D. Kenny

“One woman reminded me of you. The day she testified, she woke up still wondering whose side she was going to be on.”

Sexual Assault Grooming Stockholm Syndrome Betrayal Trauma Trauma Bond Testify Sexual Grooming

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance

“We lived separate lives, but I believed wholeheartedly that we shared the same reality.”

Toxic Relationships Grooming Abusive Relationships Stockholm Syndrome Coercive Control Trauma Bond Sexual Abuse Survivor Abused By Teacher

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance

“She wasn’t a person. She was the lullaby I hallucinated when the world became too real.”

Trauma Bond Emotional Dissociation Haunting Love Ghostly Intimacy Grief And Longing Identity Blur Poetic Madness Psychological Collapse Romantic Hallucination Surreal Memory

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Repair doesn’t mean rushing into closeness. It means learning to feel safe enough to stay.”

Abuse Trauma Codependent Trauma Bond Trauma Resolution

Book:How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain

Source: How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain

“Distance becomes a gift when closeness becomes a wound.”

Distance Boundaries Emotional Healing Self Protection Trauma Bond

Book:Legacy of Avoidance: A Journal For Those Learning To Stay When Love Feels Unsafe

Source: Legacy of Avoidance: A Journal For Those Learning To Stay When Love Feels Unsafe

“Somewhere, buried under the trauma and grief, I must have known—the problem wasn't that Ian didn't love me. The problem was the lens through which I viewed love.”

Love Relationships Grief Marriage Trauma Toxic Relationships Toxic Love Stockholm Syndrome Trauma Bond

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance