Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
My colleague Rachel Yehuda studied rates of PTSD in adult New Yorkers who had been assaulted or rapes. Those whose mothers were Holocaust survivors with PTSD had a significantly higher rate of developing serious psychological problems after these traumatic experiences. The most reasonable explanation is that their upbringing had left them with a vulnerable physiology, making it difficult for them to regain their equilibrium after being violated. Yehuda found a similar vulnerability in the children of pregnant women who were in the World Trade Center that fatal day in 2001. Similarly, the reactions of children to painful events are largely determined by how calm or stressed their parents are.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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Patrick deWitt
I'm the only member of my family who dared to move away from Birmingham - my brothers and sister are still here, along with my mom.
David Harewood
If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.
Donald Norman
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Jeff Greenfield
Whatever happened to a good pie-in-the-face joke?
Brooke Elliott
While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.
Phoebe Robinson
I have a track record of going out and talking to my constituents and then standing up and representing them. That's what people want.
Darryl Glenn
There's no love lost between me and Mitt Romney.
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At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.
T.I.
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.
Paul Auster
My colleague Rachel Yehuda studied rates of PTSD in adult New Yorkers who had been assaulted or rapes. Those whose mothers were Holocaust survivors with PTSD had a significantly higher rate of developing serious psychological problems after these traumatic experiences. The most reasonable explanation is that their upbringing had left them with a vulnerable physiology, making it difficult for them to regain their equilibrium after being violated. Yehuda found a similar vulnerability in the children of pregnant women who were in the World Trade Center that fatal day in 2001. Similarly, the reactions of children to painful events are largely determined by how calm or stressed their parents are.
Bessel van der Kolk
