Jimmy Buffett Quotes

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

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

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.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

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.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.

With the situation I was in when I was shot down, I self-identified as having PTSD.

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

I have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years.

PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn't go away.

You get these fear memories that are hard to undo.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

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

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.