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Daevyd Pepper • 2 cards

3. youth & trauma

Kevin • 34 cards

Shame is also a covert and effective bullying method.

Augusten Burroughs • This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

We are fundamentally changed by trauma, not only psychologically, but at the cellular level as well.

Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

Isolar a vítima, fazer com que ela fique numa solidão absoluta com o que vive, é também o que fazem os torturadores nos regimes políticos terroristas. É fazê-la acreditar que estará sozinha daí por diante, sozinha com seu carrasco, que não existe mais grupo nem solidariedade, sentido, realidade. Só você e eu no porão.

Neige Sinno • Triste tigre (Portuguese Edition)

These experiences leave traces on people’s biology and identity and have devastating social consequences–medical illnesses, problems with school and work performance, drug addiction and a variety of psychiatric illness. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculate that childhood trauma is our single largest public health... See more

Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score

Trauma is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms our ability to cope, causes feelings of helplessness, changes our sense of self, and diminishes our ability to feel the full range of emotions and experiences.

Mark Coleman • Healing With Nature

Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Trauma generally falls into five categories: (1) abuse (physical or sexual, but also emotional or spiritual); (2) neglect; (3) abandonment; (4) enmeshment (the blurring of boundaries between adults and children); and (5) witnessing tragic events. Most of the things that wound children fit into these five categories.