"Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Trauma, Pain, War, Memory, Struggle

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"Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there."

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"Meredith's father, the composer, who shot himself in this house. Came all the way from Vienna to shoot himself in LA. Escaped the Nazis but not himself."

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"The entire time, he'd only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never seeing me at all. I wasn't the presence of a person, but a body. I could have said anything, he wouldn't have heard me. He'd never responded, not by stopping, not with his words."

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Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

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"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Trauma, Killing, Memory, Guilt, Consequence

"One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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"I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not."

Kiersten White, American Author

Trauma, Childhood, Resilience, Awareness

"Struggling transforms her captor into a Chinese finger trap. She's suffocating. Sucking in air without relief. Her lungs expand. Contract. Expand. They fill with lies and broken promises. With despair and lost hope. Each inhale is empty. Invisible hands reach into her body and constrict around her windpipe. She watches her friends collapse like supernovae, their cognizance disappearing into a black hole. A black hole she's quickly cascading into. The dark consumes, bleeds into her vision. She blinks. Catches icy blue eyes peeking out from the shadows."

Laura Kreitzer, American Author

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"My traumatic experience was life changing."

Asa Don Brown, Canadian Author

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"Meredith's father, the composer, who shot himself in this house. Came all the way from Vienna to shoot himself in LA. Escaped the Nazis but not himself."

"His abusemakes her an anvilwithout spark."

"The entire time, he'd only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never seeing me at all. I wasn't the presence of a person, but a body. I could have said anything, he wouldn't have heard me. He'd never responded, not by stopping, not with his words."

"But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration."

"No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can."

"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."

"One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me."

"I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not."

"My traumatic experience was life changing."

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"When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going."