Lecrae Quotes

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

My childhood was so traumatic.

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

I was an abused kid.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

I have survivor's remorse.

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

My role in 'Love Sonia' gripped me to the extent that I started despising the male touch. I would stand under the shower for long spells. It just didn't feel nice.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.