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The Pressure to Talk About Your Experiences
There is a neurological basis as to why we may not in those moments actually express what's happening for us or express what we would like to express. The body and the brain process essentially, whether we are currently safe or unsafe. If it's safe, then we move up to kind of normal human functioning, where we're calm, we're engaged. Now, if in a moment, the body detects some sort of threat in its environment, then it won't necessarily go right up the chain again up to the free prefrontal cortex. So that's like emotional danger as well. And this is really familiar with the activation of the fight or flight response which you guys would be really familiar with when