"The now ill-fated behaviors of traumatised individuals do not respond well to the power of positive thinking or simplistic solutions to "fix" the problem: sooner or later you must go to the source and discover that wounded person inside, the child you once were, whom, upon closer examination, you may find you despise because of how compliant, weak, seductive, terrified or frozen he or she was. The perpetrator once lived outside, but for most people with childhood trauma the persecutor now resides inside."

—Bessel A. van der Kolk