Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Medicines that target the autonomic nervous system, like propranolol or clonidine, can help to decrease hyperarousal and reactivity to stress.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

  

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• Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

  

  Earl Wilson
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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Mind
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• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • High
  • Feeling
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• If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.

  

  Park Shin-hye
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  • Appearance
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• Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don't know how to dress myself. I'm short-torsoed with big boobs, and I don't really understand what a belt does. But you get on these shows, and people fit the clothing to you, and suddenly you learn, 'Oh, I should be wearing petite jackets.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
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  • Fashion
  • Myself

• It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Important
  • Stress
  • September

• Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
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• Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Money
  • Me
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• Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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• Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Law
  • Picture

• When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Children
  • Job
  • Stress

• I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.'

  

  Vanessa Lachey
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• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

  

  Jean Piaget
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  • Stress
  • Realist

• I grew up sort of lower working class. And I just didn't want to have the money struggles that my parents had. You know, I could just - as loving an environment I grew up in - and I grew up in a great home, a very loving home - but, you know, we had that stress. We had that stress in our life.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Life
  • Up
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• The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Up
  • Find
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• Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • People
  • Improvement

• If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Small
  • Joy
  • Focus

• Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Night
  • Cold
  • Winter

• I often joke that I've just become a professional schmoozer. Like, nobody cares how well I can rock climb anymore. It just has to do with how well I can schmooze.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Rock
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• Medicines that target the autonomic nervous system, like propranolol or clonidine, can help to decrease hyperarousal and reactivity to stress.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Stress
  • Nervous System
  • Medicines