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• Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  People, Overcoming, Use

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• Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.

  Ben Stewart

  Past, Self, People

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• The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Kids, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.

  Zachary Quinto

  Ideas, People, And Love

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• I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.

  Richard Jeni

  Mom, Mother, Sunday

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• I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

  Joan Collins

  Drama, Years, Nine

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• When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

  Hani Furstenberg

  Summer, Growing Up, Nurse

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• I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Stress, School, Thinking

  "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.

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• Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Struggle, Different

  T. D. Jakes (2014). “Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Writing, Emotional, Negative

  James W. Pennebaker (2011). “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Divorce, Car

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.

  Mark Gatiss

  War, Home, Europe

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• The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound, starved, raped, mutilated, battered, and tortured by their parents and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars.

  Lloyd deMause

  Children, Growing Up, War

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• Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an 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 tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and 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.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Growing Up, Memories, Children

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• I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have.

  Jim Stovall

  Recovery, Healing, Emotional

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• I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

  Angela Merkel

  Childhood, Three, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.

  Sven Birkerts

  Spring, Communication, Reading

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• A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Evening, Causes, Sound

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not just the snip but the full mandatory covenant is fantastically painful, leads to trauma, leads to the dulling of the sexual relationship. And can be, in itself life-threatening at that moment. We have records, I can show them to you, of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in the United States of boy babies who died or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Baby, Atheist, Children

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• I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Revenge, Real, Villain

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Bullet”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

  Mrinalini Sarabhai

  Dance, Art, Pain

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• Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

  Alain de Botton

  Emotional, Luxury, Self

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.82, Vintage

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• Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

  Julien Clerc

  Dignity, Harsh, Refugee

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• The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

  Michael M. Honda

  Tragedy, Constitution, Quiet

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• However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

  Julian Clary

  Loss, Light, Trying

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