Childhood Trauma Quotes
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![Judith Lewis Herman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1329220610i/44171._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom.
But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships.
She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships.
She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
![Danielle Bernock](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1626899179i/8276934._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”
― Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals
― Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals
![Alice Miller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1485944617i/3335.jpg)
“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”
― The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
― The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
![Nathaniel Branden](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1193554452i/1333.jpg)
“The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.”
― Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
― Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
![Anne Tenino](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1507658028i/4831235._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Sam. I've got news for you. Not every childhood trauma can be healed by finding the right penis."
Sam looked devastated. He opened and closed his mouth, eyes wide, then suddenly slumped back against the railing, unable to support himself anymore. "You mean," his voice was barely a whisper. "All those romance novels lied?”
― Whitetail Rock
Sam looked devastated. He opened and closed his mouth, eyes wide, then suddenly slumped back against the railing, unable to support himself anymore. "You mean," his voice was barely a whisper. "All those romance novels lied?”
― Whitetail Rock
![Thisuri Wanniarachchi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362839500i/2889505._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they can afford, take their own kind of take on training kids to be honest and polite. But what they don't realize is no matter how much they try, their kids will get out there. Out to this complicated little world. If they are lucky they will survive, through backstabbers, broken hearts, failures and all the kinds of invisible insane pressures out there. But most kids get lost in them. They will get caught up in all kinds of bubbles. Trouble bubbles. Bubbles that continuously tell them that they are not good enough. Bubbles that get them carried away with what they think is love, give them broken hearts. Bubbles that will blur the rest of the world to them, make them feel like that is it, that they've reached the end. Sometimes, even the really smart kids, make stupid decisions. They lose control. Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second of every day. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be exposed to problems that no kind of therapy can help. Your kids could be brainwashed by themselves to believe in insane theories that drive them crazy. Most kids will go through this stage. The lucky ones will understand. They will grow out of them. The unlucky ones will live in these problems. Grow in them and never move forward. They will cut themselves, overdose on drugs, take up excessive drinking and smoking, for the slightest problems in their lives.
You can't blame these kids for not being thankful or satisfied with what they have. Their mentality eludes them from the reality.”
― COLOMBO STREETS
You can't blame these kids for not being thankful or satisfied with what they have. Their mentality eludes them from the reality.”
― COLOMBO STREETS
![Maggie Georgiana Young](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654108194i/13594325._UX200_CR0,77,200,200_.jpg)
“I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.”
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![Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable](https://images.gr-assets.com/quotes/1382306076p2/762759.jpg)
“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness.”
― Satan's High Priest
― Satan's High Priest
![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.”
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“In order to survive her tumultuous childhood, Mary created another Fat Mary, a companion and consoler, who took away her hurts, fears, and questions and kept them safe until Mary was older and mature enough to process the abuse and neglect she had endured.”
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![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.”
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![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“SCREW CHILDREN!
That's the mantra of the world.
Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.”
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That's the mantra of the world.
Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.”
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![Asa Don Brown](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1292117304i/4499762._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.”
― The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview
― The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview
![Martha Stout](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1325431121i/41016.jpg)
“-If I somehow possessed a set of videotapes that contained all the most significant events of your childhood, in their entirety, would you want to see them?
-Absolutely. Right this very second.
-But why? Don't you think some of the tapes would be very sad?
-Most of them, yes. But if I could see them, then I could have them in my brain like regular memories-horrible memories, yes, but regular memories, not sinister little ghosts in my head that pop out of some part of me I don't even know, and take the rest of me away. Do you know what I mean?
-I think so, If you have to remeber, you'd rather do it in the front of your brain than in the back.”
― The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
-Absolutely. Right this very second.
-But why? Don't you think some of the tapes would be very sad?
-Most of them, yes. But if I could see them, then I could have them in my brain like regular memories-horrible memories, yes, but regular memories, not sinister little ghosts in my head that pop out of some part of me I don't even know, and take the rest of me away. Do you know what I mean?
-I think so, If you have to remeber, you'd rather do it in the front of your brain than in the back.”
― The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
![Danielle Bernock](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1626899179i/8276934._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.”
― Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals
― Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals
![Stefan Molyneux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388630101i/882627._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and rise like a phoenix, free of all history, is generally a tipping point into insanity, akin to believing that we can escape the endless constraints of gravity, and fly off a tall building. “I’m freeeee… SPLAT!”.”
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![Michael Gruber](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1507851383i/71147._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.”
― The Good Son
― The Good Son
![Lorraine Nilon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583552373i/17287756._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Emotional abuse is designed to undermine another's sense of self.
It is deliberate humiliation, with the intent to seize control of how others feel about themselves.”
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
It is deliberate humiliation, with the intent to seize control of how others feel about themselves.”
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
![Mary Norton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1550675473i/9720._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The child is right," she announced firmly.
Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong.”
― The Borrowers
Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong.”
― The Borrowers
“I was so angry with him, but part of me felt exhilarated by his sheer cockiness. Even under the influence of God knows how many rounds of drinks at Dave’s, Wild Bill still had enough charisma to charm away any negative thoughts.
He never taught me to ride a bike, bandaged a skinned knee, or comforted me over bullies teasing me for wearing Salvation Army clothes. But Wild Bill was my dad. And that was enough.
We both erupted into laughter as I wrapped my arms around him, breathing in the distinctive scent belonging only to Dad.”
― Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell
He never taught me to ride a bike, bandaged a skinned knee, or comforted me over bullies teasing me for wearing Salvation Army clothes. But Wild Bill was my dad. And that was enough.
We both erupted into laughter as I wrapped my arms around him, breathing in the distinctive scent belonging only to Dad.”
― Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell
![Lorraine Nilon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583552373i/17287756._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Emotional abuse can leave a victim feeling like a shell of a person, separated from the true essence of who they naturally are. It also leads to a victim feeling tormented and tortured by their own emotions.”
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
![Lorraine Nilon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583552373i/17287756._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Abuse is never contained to a present moment, it lingers across a person’s lifetime and has pervasive long-term ramifications.”
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
![Lorraine Nilon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583552373i/17287756._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When you feel at sea in an abyss of emotions, reconnecting to the beauty of your soul can be difficult, but it is never impossible.”
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
![Lorraine Nilon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583552373i/17287756._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Abuse is never deserved, it is an exploitation of innocence and physical disadvantage, which is perceived as an opportunity by the abuser.”
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
― Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
![Alan Cumming](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1248454625i/173459._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“I realized that I was living my life backwards. I had to be a grown-up when I’d been a little boy, and now I was tending to the little boy who’d never had the chance to properly play… Had I not had the childhood I did, would these traits not be so at the forefront of my personality? Who knows? All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad.”
― Not My Father's Son
― Not My Father's Son
![Alan Cumming](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1248454625i/173459._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.”
― Not My Father's Son
― Not My Father's Son
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