Ptsd Stigma Quotes

“P.T.S.D. doesn't make you weak. It makes you a survivor.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“A successful suicide doesn't just happen, although, of course, there are exceptions. Someone happens to be walking across a bridge when the feeling hits. Or they're on the roof of a building and realize they have nothing to live for. But most of the time, suicide takes planning. That's the way I figured. The was I was figuring...”
― Michael Anthony, Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir

“I couldn't see killing myself if I had a book that was only half-read: Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, One Hundred Years of Solitude? No. I figured that those who killed themselves first had to finish whatever book they were reading...if it were any good, that is. Of course, there's always the occasional book that makes you want to throw yourself off a bridge just for having wasted your time reading it. But I usually finished those ones, too.”
― Michael Anthony, Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir

“And then you realize you were always a beautiful flower with a purpose and not a weed.”
― Shreve Gould

“It doesn't matter now that they lived and died, but rather did they make a difference?”
― D. Dauphinee, Highlanders Without Kilts

“The fact that I didn't even love myself was just enough to know it's time to change. I accept that not many are able to help, let alone, understand the troubles that lie within.”
― H.M. Gautsch, Evolution of Oneself: My Poetic Memoir

“I'm a writer. I was just diagnosed with PTSD. This unfortunate diagnosis, I assure you will not stop me.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“Having PTSD does not make us less than. Let us stand tall and bloom. Let others see our true beauty and change the stigma of having PTSD, Let us share our journey for others to see the healing, changing of behaviors that don't protect anymore and our growth beyond our trauma.”
― Shreve Gould

“How can you explain the loneliness I felt?
While In the darkness by myself.
How can you explain the hurt that exists
from the trauma that persists.

My voice seems lost
Or as if aside it is tossed.
My breath was taken
the moment my reality was shaken

My defensive behaviors were created
to protect me and became automated
In my fight, flight or freeze response
my intimacy with others was lost at once.

Now more darkness falls upon me
for the protective behaviors no longer protect me
but keeps me in the darkness by myself.”
― Shreve Gould

“Beneath every protective behavior is a feeling (emotion) of the fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
And beneath each feeling (emotion) of the fight, flight, freeze, or fawn is a need to be safe.
When we meet that need of safety rather than focus on the protective behavior that does not protect, we begin to deal with the cause and not the symptom.”
― Shreve Gould