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7 How Your Attachment Style Affects The Way You Relate To Other People

The Place We Find Ourselves

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Trauma and Disorganized Attachment

The resulting inner turmoil creates chaos inside. It, it dysregulates the child to the point that their ability to cope becomes utterly broken down and disorganized. How can you move toward the very figure that is also scaring you? But how can you not move toward your mother when you are scared? That is the unsolvable dilemma for the child. The infant's capacity for an organized response collapses. Their brain essentially implodes in the face of this biological paradox. And the result is utter chaos inside.

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