Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

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

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure

Any sort of bullying is a terrible thing, but I think online bullying is so much worse because it's psychological bullying.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.

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

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

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.

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

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

A girl my age had been murdered in these woods and I'd seen her last terrified moments, watched her bleed to death in this forest. A life like mine had ended here, and it didn't matter how many times I'd seen deaths in movies, it wasn't the same, and I wasn't ever going to forget it.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

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.

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.