Tarana Burke Quotes

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

The big 'Aha!' moment is that the trauma never goes away.

Only traumatised people want to be famous.

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.

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

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

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.

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.

I have survivor's remorse.

I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know what that is. But when I'm watching someone else struggle, it's not as confusing for me, 'cause it's not my struggle, so I can help identify that.

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

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

I don't think you fully get away from something like the years of depression that I went through.

Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche.

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.

When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you can recover from that trauma. The things that I have witnessed and that I have been through, it's going to take a lifetime to undo.