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“I thought that the world did not want me,
but the truth was that I did not want myself.”
― Winter Magnolia
but the truth was that I did not want myself.”
― Winter Magnolia
“Telling someone with OCD to stop obsessing about something is like telling someone who's having an asthma attack to just breathe normally.”
― Little Do We Know
― Little Do We Know
“It would've been the perfect time to tell her. To tell anyone. To say, 'I'm drowning and I need someone, anyone, to be my life raft.' To say, 'I thought it had gone, and it hasn't and I'm so scared by what that means.' To say, 'I just want to be normal, why won't my head let me be normal?”
― Am I Normal Yet?
― Am I Normal Yet?
“I had no fight left in me. Mentally and physically, I was drained. So, for now, Jack had won. I was an empty shell. I avoided conflict or discussion.”
― The Cupboard Under the Stairs: A Boy Trapped in Hell...
― The Cupboard Under the Stairs: A Boy Trapped in Hell...
“Talking about painful events doesn’t necessarily establish community – often quite the contrary. Families and organizations may reject members who air the dirty laundry; friends and family can lost patience with people who get stuck in their grief or hurt. This is one reason why trauma victims often withdraw and why their stories become rote narratives, edited into a form least likely to provoke rejection.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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