Trauma and Dissociative Disorders explained

"Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods." Peter A. Levine

"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds." Laurell K. Hamilton

"Derealization: Persistent recurrent experiences of unreality of surroundings (e.g., the world around the individual is experienced as unreal, dreamlike, distant, or distorted)." Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (2013)

"PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions." Susan Pease Banitt

"The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part of the child's mind. The child does not even remember abuse that happened the preceding night" Alison Miller