Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Trauma on body, mind, and soul: the crushing sensations in your chest that you may label as anxiety or depression; the fear of losing control; always being on alert for danger or rejection; the self-loathing.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Rejection
• Trauma
• Sensations

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• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • War
  • Doing

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Great
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

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

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Steel

• More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Opportunity
  • Look
  • Just

• You cannot win if you cannot run.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Run

• Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Air

• How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Sweet
  • Japanese

• That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Money

• Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music

• Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Work
  • Great
  • Guy

• Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

  

  Craig Armstrong

• I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • People
  • School
  • True

• My best beauty secret ever is to drink a lot of water!

  

  Anna Ewers
  • Water

• I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• My grandmother came with me when I moved out to New York. She stayed with me for a week. I was, you know, living in the dorm. The first year, I had a lot of anxiety, and, I remember, my teachers kept saying I had so much jaw tension.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • She
  • Remember
  • Anxiety

• My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Failure
  • Rejection
  • Claim

• Noticing sensations for the first time can be quite distressing, and it may precipitate flashbacks in which people curl up or assume defensive postures.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Sensations
  • Distressing
  • Postures

• Trauma on body, mind, and soul: the crushing sensations in your chest that you may label as anxiety or depression; the fear of losing control; always being on alert for danger or rejection; the self-loathing.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Anxiety
  • Rejection
  • Trauma