Dear dernell:

Before I respond to the content of your comment, I want to ask you if there is a reason you use the quotation mark ” in all your posts out of place, just there and there, ” and again. Is there a reason? If not, is it a typo… it distracts me from focusing on the content of your posts,

As to the content: thank you for responding and for being curious enough to ask for clarification! It is very, very difficult for me to clarify. I wrote it the way it felt. The scientific explanation would be that when you are traumatized in childhood, when you are really, really scared and there is nobody to comfort you, and maybe you are scared a lot of the time, that fear STICKS to your brain in the form of connections between brain cells, neurons. That fear is activated during your life even though you are not in the childhood situation any more. It gets activated AS IF the danger still exists, seeing danger where there is not, and seeing way more danger in situations that are not very dangerous. Someone getting angry at you seems dangerous but it is often not dangerous, for example.

This kind of activation and reactivity is what is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The trauma of the past keeps getting re-activated, somehow, through healing, you relax those pathways and remove the trauma from the present to the past.

Once the memories of the trauma, the emotional memory of the trauma moves locations in the brain, from the Present to the Past, you stop being afraid in the present for what happened in the past.

Let me know if I clarified it for you?

anita

To heal from PTSD