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#1

“As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.”
― Michael Gruber, The Good Son

tags: childhood-trauma

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#2

“Childhood trauma and sufferings does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while in no way relieving us of the responsibity to understand and improve ourselves.”
― Peter R Breggin

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#3

“Trauma can have a masking effect.”
― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

tags: childhood-trauma, forgiveness, laughter, love, ptsd, resiliency, trauma

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#4

“No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Falling Leaves

tags: abuse, childhood-trauma, chinese, family, memoir

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#5

“Childhood trauma can range from having faces extreme violence and neglect to having confronted feelings of not belonging, being unwanted, or being chronically misunderstood. You may have grown up in an environment where your curiosity and enthusiasm were constantly devalued. Perhaps you were brought up in a family where your parents had unresolved traumas of their own, which impaired their ability to attend to your emotional needs. Or, you may have faced vicious sexual or physical attacks. In all such situations, you learn to compensate by developing defenses around your most vulnerabe parts.”
― Arielle Schwartz, The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole

tags: child-abuse-survivors, childhood-trauma, complex-ptsd, complex-trauma, traumatic-experiences, traumatized, unmet-needs

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#6

“I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: audrey-hepburn, authors, being-me, final-statements, frankly-dear-i-don-t-give-a-damn, humor, monologue, oscar-wilde, rett-butler, sarcasm, tsloama

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#7

“The traumatic stress field has adopted the term “Complex Trauma” to describe the experience of multiple and/or chronic and prolonged, developmentally adverse traumatic events, most often of an interpersonal nature (e.g., sexual or physical abuse, war, community violence) and early-life onset. These exposures often occur within the child’s caregiving system and include physical, emotional, and educational neglect and child maltreatment beginning in early childhood

- Developmental Trauma Disorder”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk

tags: abuse, child, childhood-trauma, complex-ptsd, complex-ptsdx-trauma, psychology, ptsd, traumatic-stress, war

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#8

“But what happens to the girl with no positive parental examples?
What happens to the girl with the cold mother who
conditioned herself to bury her emotions?
And what happens to the girl with the father who
is an example of who not to marry?”
― LaTasha “Tacha B.” Braxton

tags: childhood, childhood-memories, childhood-suffering, childhood-trauma, dysfunctional-families, psychology

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#9

“I do... to this day, think that success is being able to look in the mirror and know that I'm alright on that day. I don't believe I've made it–I believe that I'm making it. I believe that I've found my past so that I can live in the present, it's the most important thing to me. The books and the plays and the touring and the gigs and the speeches and the cash...it all pales into insignificance when compared with knowing that I didn't do anything wrong, and I'm going to be okay now.”
― Lemn Sissay

tags: childhood-trauma, growing-up-human, growth, healing, lemn-sissay, poet, success

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#10

“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: abuse, child-abuse, childhood, healing, psychology, trauma

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#11

“I can’t stop and all I have is a word addiction. Conjunction-Junction really fucked me up as a kid. This is all childhood trauma that’s manifesting itself in word needles and I can’t find enough good veins.”
― Jesse James Freeman

tags: marni-mann-s-blog

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#12

“I can’t remember the words she spoke when they finally opened the garage door and yanked me inside, but I was petrified. It wasn’t sound Mom’s screams or the jolt of her grabbing me by the shoulders and shaking me like a rag doll that plagues my memory, but the look of her eyes- wide, wild, and unrecognizable.”
― Maggie Young

tags: abuse-recovery, abuse-survivors, childhood-trauma, feminist-author, feminist-writer, maggie-young, maggie-young-quotes, mom, mother-burning, mother-s-day

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#13

“Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.”
― Floyd C. Forsberg, The Toughest Prison of All

tags: childhood, childhood-memories, childhood-traumas, death, death-of-a-parent, denial, disbelief, emptiness, empty, end, ended, forced-to-grow-up, growing-up-too-fast, numbness

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#14

“Childhood trauma may sneak up from behind and fuck you in the ass when you grow up, but at least it leaves a tip on the nightstand.”
― Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships

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#15

“We don’t necessarily need to know each other’s name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a shared desire for lasting peace.”
― Marta Mrotek, Miracle In Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery

tags: anonymity, comfort, community, finding-peace, inspiration, peace, recovery, understanding

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#16

“There’s a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day.”
― Kris Kidd, Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

tags: childhood-trauma, depression, eating-disorders

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#17

“Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: adolescence, childhood-trauma, growing-up, painful-memories

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#18

“There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.”
― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

tags: abuse, children, children-abuse, counseling, dr-asa-don-brown, maltreatment, neglect, perception, psychology, the-effects-of-childhood-trauma, trauma, worldview

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#19

“Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...”
― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

tags: abuse, childhood-abuse, counseling, dr-asa-don-brown, maltreatment, masking, neglect, psychology, trauma

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#20

“It makes perfect sense that if human beings are raised in warm, loving households; if they are brought up to believe that the world is a secure and decent place, then they will grow up with a healthy relationship toward themselves and other people. - able to give love freely and receive it in return. Conversely, if a person is severely mistreated from his earliest years, subjected to constant psychological and physical abuse, he or she will grow up with a malignant view of life. To such a person, the world is a hateful place where all human relationships are based, not on love and respect, but on power, suffering, and humiliation.”
― Harold Schechter, The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers

tags: childhood-trauma, survivors-of-abuse, survivors-of-sexual-abuse

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#21

“...the child cries because they need something. If the child had the ability to take care of the problem themselves, they wouldn’t cry. And if their crying is ignored, they start to feel helpless and frustrated because they can’t get what they need. They may even fear abandonment—or feel that their life is in danger because no one is coming to help them. Failing to meet a crying child’s needs also teaches the child that their needs and feelings are unimportant and even dangerous, and that they are bad and unworthy of love.”
― Darius Cikanavicius

tags: childhood, childhood-abuse, childhood-trauma, children, crying, development, dysfunctional-family, psychology

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#22

“Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.”
― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

tags: abuse, attachment, childhood-abuse, children, counseling, dr-asa-don-brown, love, maltreatment, neglect, parenting, psychology, secure-attachment, trauma

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#23

“Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.”
― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

tags: abuse, childhood-abuse, counseling, dr-asa-don-brown, maltreatment, neglect, physiological, psychological, psychology, trauma

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#24

“This is the difference between traumatic memory and ordinary memory. Traumatic memory stays vivid.”
― Lenore Terr, Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood

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#25

“I want to see her naked, " Mengele said pointing to Marlene. She cried and shock. My mother flung her body in front of Marlene's and said, "You can't have her. I love her, my daughter." My father said, "Take the younger one. She's smarter, " as he pushed me over forward.
Marlene cried because father said I was smarter even though he was just trying to manipulate Mengele. The doctor's chest grew large.”
― Wendy Hoffman, The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir About Electricity and Mind Control

tags: attachment, betrayal, child-abuse, childhood-abuse, childhood-sexual-abuse, childhood-trauma, josef-mengele, manipulation, war-criminals

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#26

“The childhood trauma of constant tests and doctors trying to make me ‘normal’ had left me with a powerful aversion to hospitals.”
― Estelle Ryan, The Pucelle Connection

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#27

“Children need their caregiver’s presence, interaction, connection, and emotional availability. Not only are these fundamental elements closely related to feelings of safety and security, they are also vital for a child’s healthy development. Since the child’s well-being depends on the bond between themselves and their caregiver, it is their caregiver’s responsibility to be very attentive both to their own selves and to their child.”
― Darius Cikanavicius, Human Development and Trauma: How Childhood Shapes Us into Who We Are as Adults

tags: childhood, childhood-abuse, childhood-trauma, children, crying, development, dysfunctional-family, psychology

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#29

“One of the survival mechanisms of children raised in alcoholic families is an awareness of parental needs and feelings and of changes in parental moods and behavior. The Adult Child often makes a full-time occupation of mind reading with partners, friends, employers, and therapists. As a consequence, they earn a Ph.D. at the age of six in observing the behavior of others and assessing parental needs—but are in elementary school at age thirty, trying to learn to assess, label, or communicate their own needs and feelings.”
― Jane Middelton-Moz, After the Tears: Helping Adult Children of Alcoholics Heal Their Childhood Trauma

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#30

“As she read, she felt she was giving this story a new life of its own. It was no longer a reflection of her childhood and whatever happened within the Storm family. It was just a story, to be shared and enjoyed.”
― Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found

tags: childhood, healing, stories, trauma

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#31

“Childhood trauma is not a life sentence.”
― Rachel Hollis, Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

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