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Why Bad Boys Feel Good, with Dr. Stephen Porges!
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Understanding Trauma and the Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal theory revolutionized the understanding of trauma by identifying the freeze response as a third option apart from fight or flight. Freeze includes two forms of immobilization: one with muscle tone, known as freezing, and one without muscle tone, known as collapse. This freeze response is a survival mechanism that organisms, including humans, utilize under life threat. Through narratives of trauma survivors, polyvagal theory revealed the body's innate response to danger and shifted individuals' perspectives from feeling unique and crazy to recognizing the body's efforts in self-preservation. By integrating the sympathetic and dorsal vagus systems, individuals can experience a freeze response. This freeze response can develop over time as a way to optimize survival in recurring traumatic situations. Dissociation is seen as a nuanced adaptation to life threats with minimal physiological consequences, showcasing the remarkable adaptive nature of the nervous system in optimizing survival.
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