inside ptsd, it takes time


It didn't this time last year. Imagine that, for real, for a moment...

Springtime, and instead of being spacious enough to appreciate the majestic brilliance of new buds and longer, less cold days, imagine it's a time of sadness, how the alacrity of spring will accelerate your not ...

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inside ptsd, fleeing


What is staggering, is how true the details are, ptsd that is... triggered state.

The basic pattern for the body's response to trauma, at least in part—at least how i know it—is this:

  1. try to get away, duck, flee!!
  2. freeze/fight back, fight back or freeze.

That ...

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