Sheela Raja > Quotes

“Many people with PTSD feel numb emotionally, particularly when it comes to positive emotions.”
― Sheela Raja, Overcoming Trauma and PTSD: A Workbook Integrating Skills from ACT, DBT, and CBT

“When you experience stressful events early in your life, you may have difficulty trusting other people, and you may have no models of what a “good” relationship should look like.”
― Sheela Raja, Overcoming Trauma and PTSD: A Workbook Integrating Skills from ACT, DBT, and CBT

“Also, you may feel there is no reason to plan for the future, or that you may not live to experience positive things in your life.”
― Sheela Raja, Overcoming Trauma and PTSD: A Workbook Integrating Skills from ACT, DBT, and CBT

“Although substance use helps in the short term to numb you to feelings of sadness or anxiety, in the long term it simply makes it more difficult to function from day to day. For example, although drinking several drinks every evening may help you cope with anxiety and help you to fall asleep, this same behavior almost always has a downside. You might find that you wake up very easily in the middle of the night, and that the anxiety you suffer when you are sober is even worse.”
― Sheela Raja, Overcoming Trauma and PTSD: A Workbook Integrating Skills from ACT, DBT, and CBT