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Post-Traumatic Stress - The Glitch Is Coming In
When we have a traumatic event, all our senses are heightened. That intensity is what makes it look so real. If your mind is looking at data from 10 years ago and activating a fear response or an anger response, but the action isn't possible, that constant running of that system is going to create all kinds of issues. For my daughter, it was creating constant inflammation. Her mind constantly looped through the trauma from when she was six years of age,. It kept activating the cell danger response, which was the inflammation. And that kept it in a state of fighting and a state of fight or flight.