What good is a coherent narrative if people don’t want to hear it? Because trauma won’t leave you alone until you feel safe, and safety is not something that an individual can summon on their own. Safety is not a gun. Safety is being able to trust that those around you WANT to protect you from harm. But if those around you don’t believe you are “like them,” then they will focus on the discomfort you make them feel, and that discomfort is not a safe space
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation, Hannah Gadsby
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The essence of trauma, is loss of contact with yourself.
Gabor Mate
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Tell me why i find it painful making new friends? Like my mind will physically not allow it. I end up ghosting them as soon as i start feeling overwhelmed by their love.
Fuck.
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It's crazy how trauma makes you push people away when all you want is love.
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grieving the person you used to be
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Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa; “Rifqa”
[Text ID: “I cried—not for the house / but for the memories I could have had inside it.”]
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Being healed isn’t about feeling nothing. Being healed is about feeling the appropriate emotions at the appropriate times and still being able to come back to yourself. That’s just life.
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo
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Sometimes, what's meant to be a temporary state... becomes a long term trait.
Dr. Gabor Maté
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James: Tell your brother that its important to talk about his feelings!!!
Sirius: pfft why?? Its not.
Regulus: SEE. We grew up just ignoring every feeling, and look how great we turned out!
James: THATS TRAUMA, YOU WERE REPRESSED-
Regulus: HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THE POSSIBILITY THAT ITS JUST MY PERSONALITY, MY LIFESTYLE-
James: YOUR TRAUMA-
Regulus: TRAUMA BUILDS CHARACTER JAMES
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Me recordaste por qué había dejado de expresar mis sentimientos.
Y me dolió hasta el alma.
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