#traumatic

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#done #election #hundreds #members #never

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life. ↗

— Stephen Tobolowsky

#had #hair #i #i think #illinois

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#battle #debilitating #disorder #divorce #effects

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#even #financially #getting #go #mad

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. ↗

— Alice Miller

#any #articulating #careful #disclosure #every

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#broke #daughter #give #had #her

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#getting #going #held #i #i think

When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#down #farmers #had #i #kind

Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic! ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#haircut #having #quite #traumatic

The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways. ↗

— Michele Rosenthal

#self-awareness #self-confidence #self-empowerment #trauma #traumatic-epiphonies