Max

“Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“I think this man is suffering from memories.”
― Freud, Sigmund

“Traumatized people are terrified to feel deeply. They are afraid to experience their emotions, because emotions lead to loss of control.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“One of the hardest things for traumatized people is to confront their shame about the way they behaved during a traumatic episode,”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma