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Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman) - Audiobook Summary

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How to Recover From Trauma

Most emotional trauma can be healed. Most traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is actually a form of limbic disorder. The best way to recover is to get patients to re-learn their encounter and retrain the neocortex to manage the amygdala. There are three stages in trauma recovery: First, you start to regain a sense of safety or control through medication or relaxation techniques. Next, you acknowledge the trauma and the loss it brought by recounting your feelings into words. This extracts subconscious elements from the amygdala to be processed by the neocortex so you can understand and moderate those feelings. You can also express the trauma using art. Children tend to use games as an outlet. After a shootout

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