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All About Trauma with MaryCatherine McDonald

How To Human with Sam Lamott

CHAPTER

The Puddle Effect

When we think about flight or freeze, that also is an evolutionary adaptation. How is it the case that puddle people have made it? But what happens when people become puddles is that they often get attention, affection and support. And so they are able to opt out of situations that feel really scary. It seems to set you up for perfect storm of shitty feedback loop. Where to get what you need requires extreme distress.

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