Childhood-trauma Quotes

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incide...

Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with...

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—st...

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a ...

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not: we...

I wonder how much- or how little- they remember. I am somehow convinced that they don't remember any...

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being...

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illnes...