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#1

“If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just want you to understand this: You are not to blame. There is nothing you did to make someone hurt you, nor is there anything you could have done differently to prevent or stop it.”
― Robert Uttaro, To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence

tags: depression, empowering, empowerment, healing, hope, rape, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, sexual-violence, spiritual-growth, spirituality, suicide-thoughts, trauma, victim-blaming

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#2

“Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they don't want to is sexual coercion. This includes persistent attempts at sexual contact when the person has already refused you. Nobody owes you sex, ever; and no means no, always.”
― Miya Yamanouchi , Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

tags: coercion, feminism, feminist, rape, rape-culture, relationships, sex, sexual-assault, sexual-coercion, sexual-violence, sexuality

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#3

“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.”
― Flora Jessop, Church of Lies

tags: abuse, abusers, innocent, inspirational, lies, perpetrators, poetry, survivors, victims

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#4

“In a healthy relationship, vulnerability is wonderful. It leads to increased intimacy and closer bonds. When a healthy person realizes that he or she hurt you, they feel remorse and they make amends. It’s safe to be honest. In an abusive system, vulnerability is dangerous. It’s considered a weakness, which acts as an invitation for more mistreatment. Abusive people feel a surge of power when they discover a weakness. They exploit it, using it to gain more power. Crying or complaining confirms that they’ve poked you in the right spot.”
― Christina Enevoldsen, The Rescued Soul: The Writing Journey for the Healing of Incest and Family Betrayal

tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, abusive-relationships, domestic-violence, emotional-abuse, healthy-relationships, intimacy, power, survivors, vulnerability, vulnerability-intimacy, weakness

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#5

“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.”
― Tiffany Madison, Black and White

tags: men, mental, mental-awareness, mental-disorders, mental-health, mental-illness, mental-strength, ptsd

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#6

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: denial, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, psychotherapy, ptsd, taboo, trauma, truth

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#7

“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”
― Susan Pease Banitt

tags: emotions, healing, mental-health, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, psychology, ptsd, spirituality, stress, trauma, traumatic-experiences, traumatic-stress, traumatized, yoga

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#8

“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

tags: advocates, america, anxiety, anxiety-attack, anxiety-disorders, arizona, child-abuse, control, corruption, crime, crime-and-punishment, domestic, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, enable-abuse, family, family-drama, family-relationships, fighter, government, growing-up, growth, healing, hope, hopeful, hopeful-heart, hurt, injustice, inspire, justice, justice-system, law-enforcement, lawmakers, laws, life, living, memoir, memories, overcoming, panic-attack, panic-attacks, pedophile, physical-abuse, police, politicians, politics, post-traumatic-stress, power, powerful-story, powerless, ptsd, quote, quotes, rape, rape-culture, rape-of-a-child, rape-survivor, raped, red-tape, safety, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, sexual-violence, south, southern, survival, survive, survivor, survivors-of-abuse, truth, united-states, united-states-of-america, violence, violence-against-women, youth

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#9

“Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again ... we are survivors. If you are here today... you are a survivor. But those of us who have made it thru hell and are still standing? We bare a different name: warriors.”
― Lori Goodwin

tags: ptsd, soldier, survivor, war, warrior

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#10

“Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...”
― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

tags: childhood, psychologist, psychology, ptsd, recovery, research, resiliency, trauma

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#11

“There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

tags: depression, memories, memory-loss, ptsd, remember, remembering, sadness, trauma, traumatic

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#12

“Here, from her ashes you lay. A broken girl so lost in despondency that you know that even if she does find her way out of this labyrinth in hell, that she will never see, feel, taste, or touch life the same again.”
― Amanda Steele, The Cliff

tags: insomnia, ptsd, rape, rape-survivor, reborn

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#13

“Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.”
― Amanda Steele, The Cliff

tags: insomnia, ptsd, rape

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#14

“It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

tags: fear, not-that-bad, patriarchy, ptsd, rape, rape-culture, roxane-gay, survival, victim-blaming

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#15

“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.”
― Jessica Stern

tags: denial, ptsd, trauma

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#16

“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try so hard to heal and yet who are constantly being pushed down both by their symptoms and the oppressive circumstances of post traumatic life around them.”
― Carolyn Spring

tags: complex-ptsd, cptsd, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, ptsd-recovery, retraumatization, survivors, survivors-of-abuse, trauma-memory, trauma-survivors

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#17

“The human need to be visible is countered by the need to be invisible to avoid further abuse, and the need for intimacy and the dread of abuse, all pose insoluble dichotomies which promote further withdrawal from human contact, which reinforces the sense of dehumanisation.”
― Christiane Sanderson, Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma

tags: abuse-survivors, child-abuse-survivors, cognitive-dissonance, complex-ptsd, dehumanisation, dehumanization, dehumanize, dehumanized, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, ptsd, survivors-of-abuse, traumatized, withdrawn

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#18

“The part I wanted them to understand is that these equations can implode, constricting your whole life, until one day you're sitting in a locked steel box breathing through an airhole with a straw and wondering, 'Now? Now am I safe?”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

tags: fear, patriarchy, ptsd, rape, rape-culture, survival, victim-blaming

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#19

“Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.”
― Carolyn Spring

tags: dissociated, flashback, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, trauma, traumatized, trigger, triggers

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#20

“For anyone who wonders what it's like to have a tragedy shatter your existence, this is what I would tell them: it's like going through the motions of everyday life in a zombified state. It's having outbursts of anger for what seems like no apparent reason, for even the smallest of offenses. It's forgetting how to be your once cheerful, perky self, and having to relearn basic social skills when mingling with new people (especially if those people are ignorant, or just plain terrible at showing sympathy). It takes a while to re-learn all those basic skills. Maybe...it's possible. Maybe you have to want your life back first, before it can start repairing itself But then you also have to accept that the mending process may take the rest of your life. I don't think there's a set time limit for it.”
― Sarahbeth Caplin, Someone You Already Know

tags: abuse, ptsd, rape, recovery, sexual-assault, trauma, traumatic-experiences

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#21

“Managing your terror all by yourself gives rise to another set of problems: dissociation, despair, addictions, a chronic sense of panic, and relationships that are marked by alienation, disconnections, and explosions. Patients with these histories rarely make the connection between what has happened to them a long time ago and how they currently feel and behave. Everything just seems unmanageable.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: addiction, alienation, depression, dissociation, panic, ptsd, trauma

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#22

“TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE

People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run out of nothings to tell them.

You've tried and they've tried, but the words just turn to ashes every time they try to leave your mouth.

They start as fire in the pit of your stomach, but come out in a puff of smoke.

You are not you anymore.

And you don't know how to fix this.

The worst part is...you don't even know how to try.”
― nikitta gill

tags: posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, survivors, trauma, trauma-survivors, traumatized, voiceless

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