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Trauma Changes Your Brain – So Does Healing
I know I haven’t been writing much this month, it’s been a very, very busy month! However, if you’re looking for some good stuff from other survivors, there’s no better place to start than this month’s edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse! Check it out, and consider submitting your own posts in future…
“My main apprehension about the release though, was that I became increasingly concerned that I’d followed a bad idea through. People are often very reluctant to talk about mental illness, often with what (to them at least) are legitimate reasons. Even if you do talk about it, there are many different takes on how you…
As abuse survivors, it might be difficult to believe that most people actually want to be kind, and want to connect to other people. It wasn’t our experience growing up, and let’s face it, better safe than sorry, right? Why trust anyone?
This seems accurate. “Traumatized brains look different from non-traumatized brains in three predictable ways: The Thinking Center is underactivated. The Emotion Regulation Center is underactivated. The Fear Center is overactivated. What these activations indicate is that, often, a traumatized brain is “bottom-heavy,” meaning that activations of lower, more primitive areas, including the fear center,…
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