Tag: Rules to stay Happy
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How to Heal From trauma:-
;>We have observed observed that 75 percent of severely wounded soldiers on the Italian front did not request morphine, a surgeon by the name of Henry K. Beecher speculated that โstrong emotions can block pain.โ6 Were Beecherโs observations relevant to people with PTSD? :>Mark Greenberg, Roger Pitman, Scott Orr, and I decided to ask eight…
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Chapter 6:- How To Gain Hope Again
CHAPTER 6 LOSING YOUR BODY, LOSING YOUR SELF :- Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradualy, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. . :- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poer…
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Getting out of trauma
:>ยฐyouโve ever been through a highly stressful event or series of events, youโve been through a traumatic experience. A feeling of helplessness, horror, and in some cases, the challenges of a serious injury (or the threat of one) are common after these events. There are many ways you can help yourself get through it. .…
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:> Organized To Survive
:>ORGANIZED TO SURVIVE This illustration on page 53 shows the whole-body response to threat. When brain’s alarm system is turned on, it automatically triggers preprogrammed physical escape plans in the oldest parts of the brain. :>. As in other animals, the nerves and chemicals that make up our basic brain structure have a direct connection…
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Rediscovery of trauma
THE BRAIN FROM BOTTOM TO TOP The most important job of the brain is to ensure our survival, even under themost miserable conditions. Everything else is secondary. In order to do that,brains need to: (1) generate internal signals that register what our bodiesneed, such as food, rest, protection, sex, and shelter; (2) create a map…
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IDENTIFYING DANGER : THE COOK AND SMOKE DETECTOR
Danger is a normal part of life, and brain is in charge of detecting it and organising our response. The sensations are thnen passed on in two directionsUper down to the amygdala, two small almond-shaped structures that lie deep in the limbic, unconscious brain, and up to the trontal lobes, where they reach our conscious…
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Running From Your Life:- The Anatomy of survival
Breathing, eating, sleeping, pooping, and peeing are so fundamental that their significance is easily neglected when we’re considering the complexities of mind and behavior. However, if your sleep is disturbed or your bowelsdon’t work, or if you always feel hungry, or if being touched makes you want to scream (as is often the case with…
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Looking Into Brain
Her script took her back to the day, thirteen yearsearlier, when she picked up her five-year-old daughter, Melissa, from day camp. As they drove off, Marsha heard a persistent beeping, indicating that Melissaโs seatbelt was not properly fastened. When Marsha reached over to adjust the belt, she ran a red light. Another car smashed into…
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BRAIN IN TRAUMA
Effective action versus immobilization. Effective action (the result of fight/flight)ends the threat. Immobilization keeps the body in a state of inescapable shock andlearned helplessness. Faced with danger people automatically secrete stress hor-mones to fuel resistance and escape. Brain and body are programmed to run forhome, where safety can be restored and stress hormones can come…
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THE BRAIN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM ๐ง ๐๏ธ๐๐
THE BRAIN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM The most important job of the brain is to ensure our survival, even under themost miserable conditions. Everything else is secondary. In order to do that,brains need to: (1) Generate internal signals that register what our bodiesneed, such as food, rest, protection, and shelter; (2) create a map of…