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“Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.”
― Carolyn Spring

tags: dissociated, flashback, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, trauma, traumatized, trigger, triggers

37 likes

“People may not realize the damage that they are doing by placing the blame on the victim ~ but that doesn't lessen the damage that they cause by doing it.”
― Darlene Ouimet

tags: abuse-survivors, blame, blame-the-victim, healing-insights, rape, rape-survivor, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, survivors, survivors-of-abuse, victim-blaming

23 likes

“Denial forces victims to retreat in lifeless existence, dieing in the shadows of buried trauma and painful memories.”
― Trudy Metzger

tags: child-sexual-abuse, denial, rape, rape-culture, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, shame, society-denial, survivor, survivors-of-abuse, trauma, traumatic-experiences, traumatized, victim, victim-blaming

30 likes

“There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memories of those who deny it.”
― Sue Campbell, Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars

tags: child-sexual-abuse, dissociative-amnesia, false-memory-syndrome, false-memory-syndrome-campaign, memory-wars, recovered-memories, repressed-memories, repression, society-denial, trauma-memory, traumatic-amnesia

7 likes

“Sometimes the shame is not the beatings, not the rape.
The shaming is in being asked to stand judgment.”
― Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

tags: domestic-violence, misogyny, rape, shame, victim-blaming, victimhood

12 likes

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