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Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.
Gabor Gastonyi. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Gabor Maté
Hungarian-Canadian physician specializing in addiction, trauma, and childhood development. Author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (2008).
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The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain.
What we call the personality is often a patchwork quilt of compensations and cover-ups.
The question is not why the addiction, but why the pain.