Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.
Bennet Omalu
BrainLongBadTraumaLong Term
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
H. G. Bissinger
FootballMedicalTraumaOverHead
I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.
Ann Packer
MeChangesTraumaThingsReturn
I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the time to listen to their stories.
Michelle Alexander
TimePeopleThinkAmericaTrauma
I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.
Clemantine Wamariya
TryingHideFindTraumaCopingThan
Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.
Phil Klay
WarTraumaDiscussionOftentimes
Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation rather than polarized by hysteria and politics.
Peter A. Levine
PoliticsProblemsHumanTraumaAbuse
I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.
Lynsey Addario
WomenProcessViolenceHatredTrauma
Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.
Hisham Matar
WarIsolationCrisisTraumaSuffer
We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll overtake us, and we'll self-destruct.
Bernice King
CommunityTraumaAfrican-AmericanUs
Conflict is always more interesting to play. Not everyone gets along in the trauma unit. In a hard-pressed job like this, there will always be friction.
Neve McIntosh
JobConflictInterestingPlayTrauma
Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.
Victoria de los Angeles
DeathMeTraumaCourseLotGeoffrey
A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they've trusted take responsibility, and that is what's toxic.
Hannah Gadsby
ResponsibilityPeopleHandsTrauma
I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
Jodi Picoult
ChildhoodMeTraumaDisappointed
When you're going through these difficult times of chaos and trauma, the most important thing is to keep those who are closest to you together.
Michael Imperioli
TogetherChaosYouImportantTrauma
Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.
Lisa Unger
LiveLightDarkDark SideTrauma
I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.
Claire Cameron
PeopleTraumaStreetsManhattanThan
Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.
Susan Burton
WomenChildrenGreatTraumaMine
Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it.
TransformationHeightsWillTrauma
The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.
RiskBecomeMoreTraumaOverNormal
Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
Henry Cloud
LifeGrowthNewShyTraumaOpen
I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
LifeWorldEasyBadPoorTrauma
We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.
Nic Pizzolatto
MeRealityExplorationBornTrauma
I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore.
Tarana Burke
JoyTraumaGroundedAnymore
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