Words matter. These are the best Traumatic Quotes from famous people such as Sandra Oh, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Dinesh D’Souza, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Ian Smith, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t think people get the pressure of becoming famous and what it does for an artist. What does that for your creative self. And what that can do for your mental health. And I would say, from year two to year six or eight of ‘Grey’s,’ it was extremely difficult and very stressful and traumatic, if I’m being honest.
We moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with no idea how to speak the language. The second day in America, my brother got robbed for his roller blades. That was a very traumatic experience.
If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn’t worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.
Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn’t want to do it.
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child’s life, growth, and development.
Friends who were so supportive absolutely made my high school – that could have been traumatic – they definitely made it bearable.
My story is just my story, and it’s not nearly as traumatic as some.
I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That’s why I wrote ‘Smart Women.’ I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
Comedians don’t have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.
You certainly can’t prevent all mental health problems – factors like genetics and traumatic life events certainly play a role. But everyone can take steps to improve their mental health and prevent further mental illness.
Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
Many people think making a film about history… about war… about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don’t see things like that… you can find irony everywhere. It’s how I look at life.
Writing about traumatic events in your life is actually much harder than being there the first time round because you have to relive all those moments and you know what the outcome is.
We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it’s hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.
In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
Working at Palace was one of the happiest episodes of my football career, even though the ending was one of the most upsetting and traumatic.
Most women who go public with #MeToo stories are fearful for obvious reasons. There is the pain of reliving traumatic experiences. There is the rage of not being believed.
I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
I think if you’ve held onto a character for several years and then you’re getting rid of that character, it’s going to be traumatic.
The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life – I can’t forget the pain.
Anything traumatic in my life I’ve always dealt with through jokes and comedy.
I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.
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.
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don’t realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
I’d always been a little bit uncomfortable talking about my sexuality just because it took me a while to fully accept it. I had a bit of traumatic time with my friends when I was younger, and it kind of just put me off talking about it.
Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.
In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.
When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.
I don’t know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.
As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn’t be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.
It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don’t think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.
You can’t underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.
I’ve been in gyms before and people have recorded me on their mobile phones and uploaded it on Facebook and said: ‘Look at this fat pig,’ which has been really traumatic for me to see.
If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn’t leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.
I can’t imagine how traumatic it must be to have a gun pointed to your head for no reason at all.
Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you’re the instigator or the recipient. It’s hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again.
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.
In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
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.
The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
From any traumatic injury, you’re going to experience a lack of confidence. There’s a whole process you have to go through to break free of that.
Working on location is ideal because you enter the character and the story. Shooting at a studio near home, there’s a certain split. But on location, you forget the real world, and when you come back to reality, just going to the market can be traumatic.
My childhood was so traumatic.
When I was 13, I came back from summer camp – summer of ’74 – and my mother had had an accident during surgery and was in an oxygen tent in a coma. It was so traumatic. My parents had been divorced for six or seven years at that point, and it was sort of the seminal event of my life.
‘Empire’ was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn’t what I expected it to be.
I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there – ‘Other People’s Lives,’ as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.
The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father – he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.
My childhood was extremely unhappy. That’s not to say that my parents didn’t love me. But it was traumatic, and of course, art doesn’t come out of rosy gardens. It comes out of damage.
It’s so important, after a song is finished, to go to sleep and listen to the song with fresh ears the next day. It’s sometimes a traumatic event. And playing it for someone else for the first time – that is the most nerve-wracking thing of all. But we learn so much.
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