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#98: A Beginner’s Guide to Trauma Responses

It's Not Just In Your Head

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The Fight Flight Frieze Is Related

I remember walking into a hospital room of abused children who were very vacant. They were sucking on their bottles and pulling their hair or poking themselves at the same time. And they were like little zombi babies, because they were closed down. It's a way of not being there. If it's hurt more than the body can stand, it goes down inside to heal. There's too much so that you have to leave. And you leave and dissociate, which is a syce word meaning go elsewhere in your mind, to just lankness, to escape. Ye, they they had this other term, the flop response, which is exactly likt like if, as

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