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309: Trauma šŸ’ Plus OCD, grief and suncream with Dr MaryCatherine McDonald

Mental - The Podcast to Destigmatise Mental Health

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The Stress Response System and Trauma Response

"My house is sort of nestled into the back of a mountain and so sometimes there's deer right outside my window which sounds exactly like two grown men standing outside my window walking around in the leaves" "So when i wake up in the middle of the night because i hear a noise that's what's happening. The control panel whoever's running the control panel heard something hit the red button  and then all of a sudden i go from the lowest breathing rate lowest pulse rate of the whole day to 120 super alert," she says. 'The only problems occur when the button is getting pushed in the wrong situations or when it can't get turned off'

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