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We Made It Weird #131

You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

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PTSD and the Limbic Brain

When you have trauma, it's like when it's spurred. The woo. It's like being rewounded again. And then your limbic brain doesn't know time and either does your nervous system. So whenever it's triggered, that wound, it thinks it is as a hundred percent as if it's happening now. Which is why in movies they would like overlay the war. Yeah. I think so. Oh, yeah. I just didn't want to, I didn't know. I was hopeful that maybe we were treating it.

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