Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Tendency to superimpose their trauma on everything around them and have trouble deciphering whatever is going on around them. There appeared to be little in between.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.
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I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
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So little time and so little to do.
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
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Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
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My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
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While reliving trauma is dramatic, frightening, and potentially self-destructive, over time a lack of presence can be even more damaging. This is a particular problem with traumatized children. The acting-out kids tend to get attention; the blanked-out ones don’t bother anybody and are left to lose their future bit by bit.
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I just wish I could understand my father.
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In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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Tendency to superimpose their trauma on everything around them and have trouble deciphering whatever is going on around them. There appeared to be little in between.
