emotional-pain

when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps others_) dependency as ridiculous, shameful, painful, or denied. - Dependency in the Treatment of complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders 2001Authors: Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis

Among my stillness was a pounding heart.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

...spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...

Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

If you fail to know how to move with people without emotional discipline, you shall surely become the color of their emotions whenever they go beyond the boundaries of their emotions to display the real and true color of their emotions

You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.

Is the love you have for me, and the feelings I have for you forever parallel, with no chance of intersecting?

When you sit alone and think out your thoughts _ then that is your loudest cry!

When on an emotional roller-coaster, take the leap of faith ...

Perception is reality to the one in the experience.