Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Memories evolve and change. Immediately after a memory is laid down, it undergoes a lengthy process of integration and reinterpretation—a process that automatically happens in the mind/brain without any input from the conscious self. When the process is complete, the experience is integrated with other life events and stops having a life of its own. As we have seen, in PTSD this process fails and the memory remains stuck—undigested and raw.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Rest

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Game
  • Clarity

• What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Small
  • Island

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Ride

• Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Food
  • Health

• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Model
  • Margins
  • Shipping

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Reality
  • Best
  • Performance

• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • War
  • Air

• It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Sorry
  • Saying
  • Drunk

• Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Personality

• Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Think
  • Never
  • Answer

• 'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Sorry

• Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Person
  • Forgive

• I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

  

  Colin Angle
  • People
  • Life

• Memories evolve and change. Immediately after a memory is laid down, it undergoes a lengthy process of integration and reinterpretation—a process that automatically happens in the mind/brain without any input from the conscious self. When the process is complete, the experience is integrated with other life events and stops having a life of its own. As we have seen, in PTSD this process fails and the memory remains stuck—undigested and raw.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change