“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
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“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.”
― Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies
― Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies
“The problem with driving around Iceland is that you’re basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It’s totally exhausting.”
― Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight"
― Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight"
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”
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