... personal stuff. Been looking for answers...
"When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older the light still reaches you, sparkling as it comes up through your memories. And if you're lucky as you travel forward through time, you'll bring the whole of yourself along with you, gathering your skirts and leaving nothing behind, nothing to obscure the light. But if a Bad Thing happens part of you is seared into place, and trapped for ever at that time. The rest of you moves onward, dealing with all the todays and tomorrows, but something, some part of you, is left behind. That part blocks the light, colours the rest of your life, but worse than that, it's alive. Trapped for ever at that moment, and alone in the dark, that part of you is still alive."
― Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
"PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions."
― Susan Pease Banitt
"The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones."
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase
"God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise."
― Walter de la Mare, The Return
"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, Pushing the Limits
"Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after."
― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
"Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards."
― Jessica Stern
"I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves."
― Jessica Sorensen