FACING TRAUMA

Research from New disciplines has revealed that trauma produces actual physiological changes, including a recalibration of the brains alarm system, an increase in stress harmone activity, and alternation in the system that filters relevant information from irrelevant. We know that trauma compromises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feeling of being alive. These changes explain why traumatized individuals become hypervigilant to threat at The expense of spontaneously engaging in their day _to_day lives. They also help us to understand why traumatized people so often keep repeating the same problem and have such trouble learning from experience. We now know that their behaviors are not the result of moral failings or signs of lack of willpower or bad character _they are caused by the actual changes in the brain