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“My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).”

“Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was in a very dark place, in lots of foreign cities, far from New York. A lot of personal trials and tribulations took over my life in those years. It might be some time before I see what therapeutic function this book did serve. But for now, it's not even easy to read from it.”

Way Feels Writing Years Book Might Easy Dark Cities New York Function Trauma Trials Tribulation Therapeutic Dark Places Trials And Tribulations

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes sense, and so I wrote about this character's last day on the job, how after spending 15 years pretending to be a rabbi, he'd in effect become a rabbi.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Character Jobs Lasts Choices Deals Effects Trauma Spending Make Sense Pretending Survived Last Day Aftermath Rabbi Bad Choices

Author:Tod Goldberg

“When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot allow yourself to emotionally reenact the issue you're talking about or the experience that you're remembering. I mean that would kill you, you know. To experience a thing, a trauma, every single night, it would probably kill you emotionally.”

Knows Mean Moments Shows Care Remember Night Talking Issues Week Seven Trauma Take Care Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Staceyann Chin

“People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.”

People Thinking Has Beens Reason Taught Stress Trauma

Author:Kate Zambreno

“I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.”

Thinking Play Bigs Trauma Reactions Israeli

Author:Jill Soloway

“Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.”

People Trauma Celebrate Anti Semitism

Author:Jill Soloway

“Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The way these stories are told and what we take away from them can change, and do in certain contexts, but overall I am not sure whether Jews want to let go of the narrative of the victim.”

People Way Want Stories Remember Certain Happened Letting Go Victim Jew Trauma Narrative Not Sure Holiday

Author:Jill Soloway

“I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A lot of my work is about self-construction. Here, it's those folks who are deeply wounded and bewildered. They're not just victims of trauma; they've been shaken so forcefully that they don't quite know how or where to stand.”

Knows Trying Self Running Know How Victim Folks Trauma Construction Running Away Wounded Constructs Psychics Bewildered Intricacy

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“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!"”

People Feels Writing Trying Reason Moments Body Past Sex Childhood Comfortable Trauma Lawyer Instance Journalism Plenty Reason Why Nurse Our Past Your Past Stripping Sex Work

Author:Craig Seymour

“I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction of lives and hopes, the emotional trauma, and the economic, social, and political marginalization of the displaced, the human insecurity, with real and potentially devastating consequences over generations, in ever-widening arenas of conflict. We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.”

“It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.”

Ifs World Writing Has Beens War Might Trauma War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Might Have Been D Day

Author:Anne Roiphe

“We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there to be some new neural development which gives the person the chance to create new circuitry.”

Giving Persons Chance Cases Development Trauma Cells Neurons

Author:Jill Bolte Taylor

“If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced atrocities in conflict.”

People Ifs Trying Children War Helping Young Chance Healing Watches Conflict Trauma Experts Atrocities Counselor

Author:Mitali Perkins

“Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.”

Children Helping Childhood Mental Health Trauma Prophecy Doom Resilient Childhood Trauma

Author:Richard Bentall

“I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.”

Kind Ability Trauma

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don't go well for people. Sometimes things are tough. So everybody kind of knows someone who's been in this situation before, and I think that's what makes it work.”

People Thinking Knows Wells Kind Sometimes Situation One Thing Tough Trauma Relate

Author:Mark Millar

“Through Heaven's Gate and Back speaks to all of us that have been abused as children. Lee Thornton's descriptions of the aftereffects of repeated trauma and a profound Near-Death Experience (NDE) are not only true but explained in a way that the reader can take in. It is rare to find a book so well written that it has both sexual abuse and an NDE under one cover. We definitely will be recommending this book to our patients.”

Way Wells Children Has Beens Book Speak Heaven Written Reader Abuse Profound Patient Trauma Description Gates Well Written Near Death Near Death Experience

Author:Charles L. Whitfield

“Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.”

World War Reality Would Be Suffering Laughing Conscience Jew Trauma Wounds War Of The Worlds Germany Scar World War I Ridicule Second World War

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also the Earth, and life itself. Trauma separates us from that and dissociates us from our hearts.”

Thinking Heart Body Earth Trauma

Author:Eve Ensler

“Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a journey you take your whole life, that coming back in, re-landing in your body, in your self, on the Earth. I think one of the reasons it's been so easy, in a way, for us to violate both women and the Earth is this profound dissociation that exists in everyone.”

Thinking Way Self Reason Whole Body Earth Easy Journey Profound Trauma Your Body Whole Life Wounded Coming Back Dissociation Landing

Author:Eve Ensler

“Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.”

Want Trying Self Practice Too Much Effects Awareness Self Awareness Trauma Intense Psychological Sensitivity Dissociation Asana Detrimental Psychological Trauma

Author:James Fox

“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.”

Ifs Feels Certain Lost Loses Lines Deals Gone Childhood Essence Trauma Uncomfortable Buttons Childhood Trauma Define You

Author:Mike Ness

“When a young person is not eating three meals a day but still getting perfect grades at school, or when a young person deals with trauma at a young age yet still makes it to college, these are the things that inspire me.”

Persons Stills Age School Young Three Perfect Deals Inspire College Eating Trauma Meals Grades Young Age

Author:Michael Skolnik

“I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.”

Hard Remember Three Difficult Hours Church Rights Streets Missing Workers Corners Trauma Civil Rights Baptists Mississippi Birmingham

Author:John Lewis

“Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust.”

Facts Born Research Capacity Foundation Trauma Love And Trust Capacity To Love

Author:Robin Lim

“If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong.”

Ifs Mind Dream Body Brain Trauma Your Body Reactions Fever Infection

Author:Sebastian Junger

“Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.”

People Past Lying Healing Benefits Trauma This Life Psychoanalysis Past Life

Author:Alexander Cannon

“Happy is already a state, so if you create something that's happy... OK, wonderful... but when you're in a place of distress or trauma, there are so many more directions that can go in to me. Something that's happy can only truly go in one direction, whereas with something like distress, anger, trauma, there are so many more interesting possibilities that those emotions can create.”

Ifs States Interesting Emotion Wonderful Possibility Trauma Distress One Direction

Author:Jlin

“I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .”

Has Beens Cancer Trauma Medical Breasts Breast Cancer

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.”

Knows Firsts Ends Nations Natural Sea Dangerous Civilization Percent Vote Response Deny Trauma Reactions Realization Denial Uncertainty Islands Rising

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“The first reaction to trauma is denial, then comes anger and finally, acceptance. I think the US is still between denial and anger, and I hope we will reach acceptance because almost perversely, right now, only the US has the technology that is needed for global economic change.”

Thinking Firsts Stills Technology Economic Acceptance Needed Right Now Trauma Reactions Denial Economic Change

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Kind May Long Stills Character Home Kids Together Young Values Boys Becoming Safe Essentials Findings Trauma Defined Young Man Aunt Safe Places Home Base

Author:Marisa Tomei

“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.”

People Way Needs Two Different Helping Passion Fun Childhood Type Percent Areas Thirds Addiction Definitions Illness Trauma Punishment Mental Illness Severe Better Ways Coping

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.”

People Feels Term Events Higher Anxiety Mass Evidence Trauma Unpredictable

Author:Michael Helm

“Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.”

Important Certain Levels Trauma

Author:Michael Helm

“I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.”

People Helping Social Community Deals Overcoming Addiction Trauma Social Work Helping People Psychologist Overcoming Addiction

Author:Chath Piersath

“I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.”

People Stories Connected Trauma

Author:Chath Piersath

“The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children - or poor parenting or anything in their lives - causes them mental disorders. He says it's all biological and genetic and should be treated by drugs.”

Men Should Children Causes Poor He Man Amount Drug Meetings Clinton Trauma Treated Disorder Mental Disorder

Author:Peter Breggin

“All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of Paradise Lost," are immigrant narratives - their dreams, their traumas, their struggles - and I write them with the confidence that these stories, written from the heart, will belong, in time, to America.”

Writing Heart Two Book Stories Dream America Three Lost Struggle Written Bird Reflection West Trauma East Narrative Paradise Immigrants Perfume Hemisphere Vietnamese Diaspora

Author:Andrew Lam

“I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.”

Thinking Process Trauma

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie deserves a lot of credit for giving voice to traumas that few people feel comfortable talking about.”

People Giving Feels Real Voice Talking Issues Comfortable Deserve Trauma Credit Carrie Disorder Entertaining Bipolar Bipolar Disorder Giving Voice

Author:Tony Taccone

“In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.”

Ifs Way Huge Trauma Piano

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.”

Ifs Difficult Attention Trauma Inner Peace Inner Strength Altruism Difficult Life

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“[Christian from the Fifty Shades Darker] is definitely a good person. I mean, he's flawed like all of us, you know? And I guess all of his wounds or his trauma, he acts out sexually. Which is pretty normal. People have different wounds, people act different things out.”

People Knows Mean Persons Different Christian Normal Trauma Wounds Fifty Different Things Shade Flawed Good Person Sexually Fifty Shades

Author:Bella Heathcote

“You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the Palestinians to understand why Israel is behaving the way it does: What is the legacy of the Holocaust, what are the fears of average Jewish people?”

People Way Doe Feelings Average Israel Trauma Legacy Holocaust Palestinian

Author:Uri Avnery

“9/11 was a genuine trauma, and President George W. Bush rallied the country. I think the Iraq war was ill-considered, but there - it was done in the wake of a national trauma. And that the errors made under such circumstances are different than errors made in the cold.”

Thinking Made Different War Country Done President Cold Circumstances Errors Ill Iraq Trauma Genuine Iraq War President George W Bush

Author:Daniel Fried

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Violence Childhood Trauma Dependent Treatment Attachment Abandonment Begets Disturbance Blueprints Childhood Trauma Rupture Molestation

Author:Melissa Febos

“I do believe that we all have these stories inside of us, these scars that we compulsive worry as we do wounds, and that drive for redemption, to change the story or resolve it, governs a lot of what we do in love. We are irresistibly drawn to opportunities to reenact those traumas out of a desire to heal, not to punish ourselves.”

Believe Stories Desire Opportunity Worry Trauma Wounds Heal Redemption Resolve Scar

Author:Melissa Febos

“I don't think you can erase memory, you can just bury it, and when we're ready to process old traumas they can reveal themselves in unique ways.”

Thinking Way Process Memories Ready Unique Trauma Erase

Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly

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