Chapter 4:Immobilized by fear lessons learned from animals
Exit from immobility where induction has been repetitive and accompanied by fear and rage
Humans in addition reterrorize tehsmelves out of their (misplaced) fear of their own intense
senations and emotions
Chapter 4: Body Keeps score
“Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still
going on- unchanged and immutable- as every new encounter or event is contaminated
by the past” (Ch.4 TBKTS
Traumatized people become stuck stopped in their growth because they are unable to
incorporate new experiences
Every new ncounter or event is ontaminated by the past
Brain’s alarm system turned on: automatically triggers preprogrammed physical response plans
in the oldest parts of the brain. When the old brain takes over it partially shuts down our
conscious mind and propels the body to run, hide, fight, or on occasion freeze
Treatment needs to reactivate the capacity to safely mirror and be mirrored by others
Dissassociation is the essence of trauma not being alive in the present makes them more firmly
impreisoned in the past
Breakdown of the thalamus- People with PTSD have their floodgates open. Lacking a filter they
are on constant, sensory overload. In order to cope they try to shut themselves down and
develop tunnel vision and hyperfocus
Chapter 6 body keeps the score
Alexithymia: no words for feelings
e also more likely to have limited social support, making them less inclined to discuss
their experiences with friends or family (socially isolated), and they were at a higher risk
of developing post-traumatic stress disorder. Their self-esteem has been crushed. That
sense, however, can be “rebuilt only as it was built initially, in connection with others”
(Herman, Chapter 3 p. 79, 2015).