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296. Navigating Psychological Avoidance: A Conversation With Dr. Luana Marques

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

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The Amygdala Host

A mental hijack is when you literally think you're thinking straight but really are fully in that emotional brain the emotional brain is designed to protect you so it's going to want to do something can we go ahead. If I then showed you a very scary thing a big spire or a loud noise and you got really scared now your amygdala turns on and the amygdala because our brain is designed first and foremost to protect us the response is pretty strong and it's involuntary. What we see is that the pre-4th of cortex starts to dim so there isn't as much energy right?

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