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Others see our fear (triggers) like this, they see no danger while our fight or flight mechanism explodes.
Ptsd fear: When a past event elicits fear, a deep, deep fear, a special memory is stored in a special place, beyond our cognitive reach.
We will have to learn skills enabling us to stay focused, calm and aware when the fight or flight erupts to access these memories
When fully activated by a current visual, a certain smell, maybe a confined space, or the backfiring of a car can fire our adrenal stress response, better known as the fight or flight mechanism.
It’s that sudden, paralyzing jolt in the solar plexus, we humans experience this as fear.
The fight or flight mechanism: Physiological Effects; Tunnel vision, hearing loss, fine motor skills disappear, time is distorted along with blood pressure, heart rate, and pulse spike, finally the stimulants cortisol and adrenaline are secreted.
Thinking can be many things from, unable to think at all, confusion and numbness, frozen unable to move or think, the proverbial deer in the headlights scenario.
I won this battle with Ptsd, the calming of my fight or flight mechanism. The emotional and cognitive healing still eludes me.
With daily practice and application, slowly I started becoming more familiar less afraid of the mechanism.
Over time I could sit in the middle of my triggers exploding.
This is only half the war, integrating the cognitive and emotional part are much easier with the fight or flight acting normal.
Use your strengths, adapt things to maximize healing.
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