Lore De Silvestri R.’s Reviews > The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > Status Update

“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves”.

“Most human suffering is related to love and loss and the job of therapists is to help people”acknowledge, experience, and bear” the reality of life -with all its pleasures and heartbreak.”

“If you do something to a patient the you would not do to your friends or children, consider whether you are unwittingly replicating a trauma from the patient’s past.”

“We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present.”

“As we know, era is not the only calamity that leaves humans lives in ruins. (…) For many people the war begins at home.”

“After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don’t. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can’t understand it.”

“When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.”

“It’s hard enough to face the suffering that has been inflicted by others, but deep down many traumatized people are even more haunted by the shame they feel about what they themselves did or did not do under the circumstances. They despise themselves for how terrified, dependent, excited, or enraged they felt.”

“Trauma, whether it is the result of something done to you or something you yourself have done, almost always makes it difficult to engage in intimate relationships.”