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FACING TRAUMA
The challenge is: How can people gain control over the residues of pasttrauma and return to being masters of their own ship? Talking, understand-ing, and human connections help, and drugs can dampen hyperactive alarmsystems. But we will also see that the imprints from the past can be trans-tormed by having physical experiences that directly contradict…
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The Body Keeps The Score:_-
An increase in stress hormone activity, and alterations in the systemthat filters relevant information from irrelevant. We now know that traumacompromises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feel-ing of being alive. These changes explain why traumatized individuals becomehypervigilant to threat at the expense of spontaneously engaging in theirday-to-day lives. They also help us…
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BOOK :THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
Combat soldiers, and children who have been molested become so upsetWhen they think about what they experienced that they try to push it out oftheir minds, trying to act as if nothing happened, and move on. It takes tre-mendous energy to keep functioning while carrying the memory of terror,and the shame of utter weakness and…
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Facing trauma
One does not have be a combat soldier or visit a refuge camp in Syria orthe Congo to encounter trauma. Trauma happens to us, our friends,our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Controland Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molestedas a child; one in four was beaten…
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