I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.
'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.
I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.
It's not that I never do interviews or that I find them traumatic. It's just that I'm basically not that comfortable doing them.
So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table.
Yes, I realize when I'm reaching out to people and asking them to talk about the most traumatic thing to happen in their lives, I have to be really sensitive and thoughtful.
Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
The backlash to [Sarah] Palin`s comments was swift, with veterans and veterans` groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Lack of access to basic sanitation facilities can be a traumatic experience for girls especially during menstruation period and have an adverse impact on their health.
Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.
Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.
When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.
The new disease was named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the NFL fervently and repeatedly denied that such a thing had anything to do with the league or its players.
Of course, I was 19 years old, and I suddenly lost my legs. It was extremely traumatic at the time, but I'm so beyond that. I've done so much with my life.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.
I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.
Most women who go public with #MeToo stories are fearful for obvious reasons. There is the pain of reliving traumatic experiences. There is the rage of not being believed.
I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.
My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.
It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.
I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.
I learned a lot about a traumatic situation and what it does to you. It really brings you closer to your family and your loved ones.
I had a very traumatic end to my career so I didn't think I would become a manager then. As the years pass by the fire in you, the hunger, the desire for success comes back.
The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .
I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
We moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with no idea how to speak the language. The second day in America, my brother got robbed for his roller blades. That was a very traumatic experience.
My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.
From any traumatic injury, you're going to experience a lack of confidence. There's a whole process you have to go through to break free of that.
My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.
I think if we really break it down and talk about post-traumatic stress disorder, it`s very different than the way Sarah Palin explained it.
When I dyed my hair red, the first week was traumatic because my pillows, my shower, my towels, my clothes and everything was red.
In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
Friends who were so supportive absolutely made my high school - that could have been traumatic - they definitely made it bearable.
In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.
My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.
Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.
Her [Sarah Palin] son went to Iraq under George W. Bush, but it gives us a chance to explain what post-traumatic stress disorder is.
Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less
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