Traumatic Quotations

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.

People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.

In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.

When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems ... The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.

My heart goes out to him because of what has happened to his life, ... It's a traumatic experience.

more traumatic than the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Obviously 2005 was a traumatic year for this area, it was a tough time for this team.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows in veterans who have survived roadside blasts. In patients who are unconscious but with no penetrating head wounds, it would be extremely helpful for emergency medical technicians to test for a marker to see how severe the injuries are. Then perhaps something can be done early on.

From our perspective, at the moment, it?s business as usual. But the loss of any carrier would certainly be traumatic and we would work hard to replace that service.

He was a very sweet kid, really likable. It's very traumatic for people here.

This was not a pickup game or something associated with an after-school program. Right now our main concern is to have the proper infrastructure in place ... to ensure that the staff and students at the school have the emotional support they need on what is going to be a traumatic day.

I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.

Redeploying these valuable taconite plant assets affords a rare opportunity to sharply reduce project development costs while creating new employment opportunities in an area still recovering from the traumatic LTV plant closure.

I saw no evidence that this person had gone through a traumatic experience.

Last year as gas prices increased, we didn't see a decline in our visitation. In fact, we had a slight increase. As long as we don't have any dramatic or traumatic fire seasons, which we have experienced in the past, we hope to see a continued incremental increase in visitation each year.

Just being on the scene, it was very traumatic and surreal. It felt like a foggy day.

I think it would be so traumatic ... they would never do it again,

I think the announcement Monday was a good thing because it showed it had gotten to a resolution. It was really traumatic for everyone and given guys perspective of how delicate and special your career is. You realize you're really fortunate to have this kind of life.

I think the country went through a very traumatic event on Sept. 11 and it's very difficult for people to separate that from the facts in a particular case.

It is a very complex problem. For kids with mild ADHD that are sent to school, it may be quite traumatic to try to function in the increasingly structured environment as they move up in grades. It is difficult to find optimal solutions, and the highest levels of expertise and resources are needed.

I talk a lot to Nova on the telephone. You can't be involved with people during such a traumatic time and not be bonded. And that's part of our services. If you need somebody to talk to in the middle of the night, call us.

I think we'll have to wait and see how he does on the field, ... If he gets hot and sweaty, do the symptoms come back? His body has been through a pretty traumatic thing. You've got to make sure you don't incite a repeat of that.

Unfortunately, we're still in the process of figuring out the logistics. Our first priority was taking care of these kids who've been through such a traumatic event. I think it's no question that districts are aware. These kids are now arriving on their doorsteps. We're figuring out the answers as we go.

That was a little traumatic because we hit a shot at the buzzer to win it.

The 1999 figures came in at the higher end of expectations. The impact of the devaluation had not been as traumatic as had been feared. This is a clear sign of the economy's steady recovery.

We had to remove 12 bodies. They died from traumatic asphyxia.

There are very few winters we're going to go, 'Hey, we're set' a day after the season. That being said, this is not going to be nearly as traumatic and exciting as it was last winter.

There is a little 6-year-old boy who survived one of the most traumatic events that any child could experience -- to lose his mother there in the Gulf Stream, to float for as long as he did, and live to come ashore under the circumstances that he did. We've just got to think about that little boy,

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

We are more than happy to make the transition as easy as possible for these children and open our schools to them. They have already been through a traumatic experience with losing their homes and belongings. We not only want to meet their educational needs but also their physical needs.

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

We don't have any children, so it was a pretty traumatic thing for us.

Early season bravery has caused some of the most traumatic injuries I've seen in 21 years in the ski business. Injuries in the first part of the season occur at both ends of the spectrum. Beginners often get hurt because they don't know how to fall or they are in over their heads. Better riders get hurt because they are over confident and push their limits to far.

Today, we saw a son who was extremely distressed at the guilt he feels for not having been able to save his father from the force of the tsunami. Such people urgently need a support system to help them cope with this traumatic experience.

When you go through something that traumatic . . . I was the first family member to go to the hospital and just to see her lying there, they were saying she wasn't going to make it. It's been tough just dealing with all that the past couple of weeks and all the stages you go through, the ups and downs, staying all night at the hospital . . .

When you go through something that traumatic .Ê.Ê. I was the first family member to go to the hospital and just to see her lying there, they were saying she wasn't going to make it. It's been tough just dealing with all that the past couple of weeks and all the stages you go through, the ups and downs, staying all night at the hospital .Ê.Ê.

And while saying that, I wonder, too, what extra role the United Nations might be able to play with regard to a country, for instance, like Zimbabwe whose independence celebrations I officiated at on behalf of the queen over 20 years ago and which is now undergoing such a traumatic experience.

It was traumatic and lovely, ... My character is always trying to get his attention, and I think she feels connected to him because the town judges her for whatever reason and thinks she's a trollop, a tramp, whatever you want to call her.

It was traumatic and lovely. My character is always trying to get his attention, and I think she feels connected to him because the town judges her for whatever reason and thinks she's a trollop, a tramp, whatever you want to call her.

I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless,' she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.

A lot of them were kind of distraught because they saw us throw away 20 or more years of their lives. It was pretty traumatic for the people.

This has been a traumatic experience and it is not going to go away overnight.

They've been through some pretty traumatic experiences back home. Tucson is probably a community that most of them are pretty unfamiliar with.

Put yourself in the shoes of a victim of a very traumatic crime, ... I don't think this increases their confidence in the system.

Other disorders that could account for symptoms of ADHD include post traumatic stress disorder, which can make kids inattentive, ... Anxiety, depression and learning disorders can do the same thing.

There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury. All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury.

This government has inherited a number of traumatic issues that those who were in office before us did not have the courage to resolve,

This is obviously going to be a traumatic case. There are going to be some gruesome circumstances.

In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.

In an industry that is accustomed to a daily diet of ratings, it becomes a little traumatic for everyone when you don't get them on time,

Increasing the Dialogue About Disability. Becoming disabled can happen to anyone at any time in life. It doesn't necessarily take a traumatic accident to become disabled. You can have cancer, chronic back pain or arthritis.

I'm just glad to see a conclusion to it, ... It's been traumatic for the school and the school system. It is a sad day. Some lives were altered because of this. I'm just glad it's over and we can move on.

I'm proud of every one of them. It was a great team effort and also a bit of a traumatic experience for them. While one life was saved, they were too late to save another.

I'm definitely expecting to see a lot more traumatic injuries, people with a lot more mental stress, a lot more devastation. But I just feel as though I'm a little better prepared this year than I was last year.

This is clearly a traumatic event. He was distraught beyond belief because he knew he could have killed his girlfriend and the mother of their child.

It's been pretty traumatic for her. Hanging over her head from Day One has been the consistent possibility that she could lose her job.

It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.

I tend to fall more into the fun horror genre than the traumatic horror genre. I love the films where you're laughing as much as screaming, but that doesn't mean I don't like the other ones.

Clearly, this a traumatic event of this holy day that this attack took place.

His biggest concern is that she would get help. I can't believe they talked 45 hours and still didn't have a verdict. This has been a very traumatic situation ... and it's still not over.

His body has been through a traumatic ordeal lately, and you don't want to have a repeat of that. Let's see if he can do more (today). They tell us he'll get stronger every day, so I think we have to wait and see if he's going to be able to play a majority of the game, or any of the game.

But I have made no conscious effort to look battered and bruised. It is just the way one feels when one is put in a certain traumatic situation.

It was pretty traumatic for our industry for a couple of years there.

It's amazing how a traumatic memory can remain very much alive. It doesn't behave like a regular memory. The memory doesn't decay.

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

The Games will be delivered on time, we don't have any emergencies, traumatic or significant delays. I don't lose sleep at night. Don't worry.

And I am so thankful my son was not at home at the time. Even if he had not been hurt, it is a traumatic thing to go through, and I'm so glad he was spared that.

This is a lousy job but somebody has to do it ... No one looks forward to this traumatic journey that we're about to enter on,

These kids have really been through a traumatic experience. You're talking about kids coming out of a war zone. We're ready to support them.

For a plant closing of this magnitude, the overall impact is somewhere between traumatic and devastating.

It's always a very traumatic time, but it is time. Temple gave me a chance to make my own decision and that's the great thing about it. Right now I'm faced with another problem with my wife, so it's the right time to go.

They need to be able to run and to fight. But if you could take them behind the lines for a couple of days, then you could give it to them after a traumatic event.

It's a traumatic experience. I mean, they're robbed at gunpoint, and of course, you can see this person, he's all business, he's aggressive. So it's a scary, scary situation.

We are trying to reopen the window of opportunity to modulate the traumatic memory.

It was a traumatic experience for all of us.

It was a traumatic experience, ... It's a long road back. So I'm not going to jump back in unless I'm absolutely 100 per cent positive I'm ready. And I am.

It's a difficult thing to do and I felt prepared to do it. But some people think you are embarrassing the university by doing it. It is traumatic and I realize that when I did it that just having this discussion would be traumatic and embarrassing.

T-Mobile was the only one that had a plan then. We had no idea how traumatic it would all be. He was the only one with a phone, so he shared it with everyone. He just couldn't say no. T-Mobile was nice enough to give us a half-price deal.

It's going to be a traumatic time for everyone, there's no doubt about that.

If he gets hot and sweaty, do the symptoms comes back? ... We've got to make sure that as he continues to exert himself, the symptoms don't come back. His body has been through a pretty traumatic deal. We don't want to incite a relapse of that.

When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences.

The kid was lying there and crying and yelling. What I saw was kind of traumatic. It was traumatic to the kid, and it was traumatic to me.