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“PTSD will be the worlds greatest horror for those that survive an all out Nuclear War.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

tags: flash-backs, nuclear-war, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, ptsd-quotes, traumatic-experiences

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“We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ...What if your story starts the conversation?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

tags: chronic-illness, connect, conversation, hope, story

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“The human brain has a safety switch that gets engaged by traumatic exposure and experiences. It’s similar to being in shock but we remain there until it’s long over. We detach. We create degrees of separation between ourselves and what we feel, think, perceive, and ultimately, this impacts not only our worldview but also our perception of self.
Clinically, this is called “Dissociation.”
― Jim LaPierre

tags: ddnos, detached, dissociate, dissociate-identity-disorder, dissociating, dissociation, dissociative-disorders, emotionally-numb, psychological-defense, traumatic-experiences, traumatized

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“Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we ever imagined.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

tags: chronic-illness, faith, god, grieving, isolation, pain, trust

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“Everything that we were, everything we based our lives upon, everything that we believed is gone. In my journal one time, I expressed the feeling of hurt that I carry around, so similar to the feeling of being betrayed, and I concluded that I had been betrayed, by Life itself, and that’s pretty deep. So, the betrayed ones, like you and me, have to start all over again, from Absolute Zero, and construct some new version of “Life,” one that we can “live with.” No way we can hold onto what we used to believe, and no way we can forget what has actually happened in our lives, and in our worlds. We will never trust Life again.”
― Neil Peart, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

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