Katie Piper Quotes

I learned a lot about a traumatic situation and what it does to you. It really brings you closer to your family and your loved ones.

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

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

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.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I cannot say how touched and impressed I have been by the sight of these noble brave, and so sadly wounded men and how anxious I feel to be of use to them, and to try and get some employment for those who are maimed for life. Those who are discharged will receive very small pensions but not sufficient to live upon.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

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

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'

When something catastrophic happens to someone you love, or a situation arises that affects people you love the most, if that's the first time you've been in that position, you never really know what to do.