Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.

I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. That does something to somebody. These suspensions are the only vacations I've ever had.

People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.

I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.

Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.

Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.