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Inner drugstore:
“Or perhaps we were ignored or emotionally abandoned by our parents, creating anxiety and the general feeling of being alone and unsafe.
Our normal can become anxiety and fear.
And since it is perhaps all we have ever known, and since we may already have learned to shut down access to our feelings and our bodies, we may not even be aware of our anxiety.
Hypervigilance creates a stress response in the body, it even releases dopamine in our brains.
As children, our small bodies are marinated in those chemicals.
Even if we have never taken a drink of alcohol nor any drugs, we are all addicts.
We, as Adult Children, learn to be addicted to our own inner drug stores.
We can subconsciously seek out situations which recreate these feelings.”
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My two cents: Our small bodies were marinated in these chemicals because of abuse?
That is an ominous claim, makes my body twitch a bit reading it.
We were innocent kids.
This is another PTSD layer that needs healing.
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