Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a mental health condition triggered by the experience of a traumatic event. In many cases of PTSD, the event involved death or injury, but it can also be caused by witnessing an accident, sexual violence, or other traumatic incidents.
PTSD can cause severe and long-term mental health problems for people who have experienced trauma. These symptoms may be different for everyone, and they can vary in severity over time. Some common symptoms include feelings of intense fear or horror that happen when reminded of the event; flashbacks about what happened during the incident; intense guilt and self-blame; difficulty sleeping or concentrating; feeling emotionally numb and disconnected from others; having nightmares about the trauma experience.
The following quotes will help you keep going and find the strength to face your hard times.
39 Most Inspiring Quotes About PTSD
1. “You are not broken and in need of fixing. You are wounded and in need of healing.” ~ Danu Morrigan
2. “There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.” ~ Brian Evenson
3. “Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone…” ― Asa Don Brown
4. “Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it.”― Jonathan Haidt
5. “Battling for our Wounded Warriors to have a better tomorrow for what they battled for US yesterday.” ~ Roxanne Ward
6. “Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again … we are survivors. If you are here today… You are a survivor. But those of us who have made it thru hell and are still standing? We bear a different name: warriors.” ~ Lori Goodwin
7. “To close your eyes will not ease another’s pain.” ~ Chinese Proverb
8. “P.T.S.D. doesn’t make you weak. It makes you a survivor.” ~ DaShanne Stokes
9. “I’m destroying myself so others can’t,” she said, “and it’s the worst kind of control but it’s the only form I know.” ~ S.Z.
10. “Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed — they’re to be acknowledged.” ~ Jennifer Lane, Spiked
11. “After a traumatic experience, the human system of self preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.” ~ Judith Lewis Herman
12. “As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.” ~ Renae A.Sauter
13. “You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery.” ~ Unknown
14. “We are all just one event or trauma way from suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.” ~ Donna Kasubeck
15. “Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.” ~ Anna Funder
16. “There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.” ~ Katie McGarry
17. “Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.” ~ Amanda Steele
18. “Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.” ~ Asa Don Brown
19. “When you love a girl that has lived trauma, when she realizes that you are choosing to love her, and not hurt her, she will love you back with the same kind of tenacity that it took to walk through fire.” ~ Tracy Malone
20. “The part I wanted them to understand is that these equations can implode, constricting your whole life, until one day you’re sitting in a locked steel box breathing through an airhole with a straw and wondering, ‘Now? Now am I safe?” ― Roxane Gay
21. “Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don’t know how we got started with subverting that purpose.” ~ Hugh Howey.
22. “I survived because the fire that burned inside of me burned brighter than the fire around me.” ~ Unknown
23. “Healing trauma involves tears. The tears release our pain. The tears are part of our recovery. My friend, please let your tears flow.” ~ Dana Arcuri
24. “We hardly ever talk about trauma afterwards, because it helps to live in a world where we can pretend it never happened.” ~ Joyce Rachelle
25. “The objective is for the past to become a very tiny part of your very large, confident, capable, and free self.” ~ Michele Rosenthal
26. “Determine your core beliefs – Write them out and look at them often. If someone is violating them, evaluate and remove offenders quickly. Take control. Heal the PTSD and live the life you deserve. Be a SurThriver.” ~ Tracy Malone
27. “In war, the damage you inflict on the enemy might be immediately apparent. The damage you inflict on yourself in doing so will only become apparent later.” ~ Stewart Stafford
28. “When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.” ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
29. “When you’re going through these difficult times of chaos and trauma, the most important thing is to keep those who are closest to you together.” ~ Michael Imperioli
30. “After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.” ~ Arthur Golden
31. “A great loss brings up an emotional storm that opens up a hidden reservoir of childhood pain” ― Pete Walker
32. “You are stronger than you think. You have gotten through every bad day in your life, and you are undefeated.” ~ Unknown
33. “I wish my head could forget what my eyes have seen.” ~ Dave Parnell
34. “Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.” ~ Brittany Burgunder
35. “I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime — and that’s OK.” ~ Beau Taplin
36. “Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.” ~ Peter A. Levine
37. “Post traumatic stress injury isn’t a disease. It’s a wound to the soul that never heals.” ~ Tom Glenn
38. “The medical professionals should fight PTSD at every cost for those living in pain and the battles they’ve lost.” ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
39. “Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it’s all in your head?” – Tracy Morgan
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