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Your brain is recognizing a pattern that it has flagged with life-or-death importance, and it reflexively shoots out what it believes to be the appropriate response… None of this of course is reasonable or rational. But your brain is not trying to be reasonable. It’s trying to save your life.
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― What My Bones Know
― What My Bones Know
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Two hours and seven pancakes later, I've learned something. That trauma can be long and drawn out rather than blunt and singular. That the fear of abandonment can start in childhood and morph into something debilitating throughout the course of life. That neglect, belittling, gaslighting, and shame aren't my fault. That even though I wasn't in a war, my life was a war and caused PTSD episodes, which are my panic attacks.
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― Little Demon in the Details
― Little Demon in the Details
