"we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destructi..."
- Sigmund Freud
"PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions."
- Susan Pease Banitt
"Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality."
- Bessel A. van der Kolk
"Dissociative identity disorder is conceptualized as a childhood onset, posttraumatic developmental disorder in which the child is unable to consolidate a unified sense of self. Detachment from emotion..."
- Bethany L. Brand
"...the vast majority of these [dissociative identity disorder] patients have subtle presentations characterized by a mixture of dissociative and PTSD symptoms embedded with other symptoms, such as pos..."
"Much, much later. when I am back home and being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I will be enabled to see what was going on in my mind immediately after 11 August.I am still capable ..."
- Jake Wood