Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.
Judith Lewis HermanTag: relationships trust isolation trauma survivor abuse traumatization traumatized
Dr. Peter Levine, who has worked with trauma survivors for twenty-five years, says the single most important factor he has learned in uncovering the mystery of human trauma is what happens during and after the freezing response. He describes an impala being chased by a cheetah. The second the cheetah pounces on the young impala, the animal goes limp. The impala isn’t playing dead, she has “instinctively entered an altered state of consciousness, shared by all mammals when death appears imminent.” (Levine and Frederick, Waking the Tiger, p. 16) The impala becomes instantly immobile. However, if the impala escapes, what she does immediately thereafter is vitally important. She shakes and quivers every part of her body, clearing the traumatic energy she has accumulated.
Marilyn Van DerburTag: survivors trauma traumatic-experiences traumatized fight-flight-freeze play-dead trauma-experiences traumatic-stress
If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. “Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.
Marilyn Van DerburTag: depression beliefs survivors anxiety belief-quotes trauma survivor chronic-pain traumatized physical-pain physical-problems somatic survivors-of-abuse somatic-experience trauma-healing trauma-survivors
Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John
J.R. WardTag: healing healing-the-past traumatized healing-insights healing-journey healing-process healing-trauma
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.
Susan Pease BanittTag: psychology emotions spirituality yoga healing stress mental-health posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ptsd traumatic-experiences traumatized traumatic-stress post-traumatic-stress-disorder posttraumatic
Without dignity, identity is erased.
Laura HillenbrandTag: identity dignity traumatized identity-confusion
One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through the felt sense), it, by its very nature, changes. Out of the shattered fragments of her deeply injured psyche, Jody discovered and nurtured a nascent, emergent self. From the ashes of the frantically activated, hypervigilant, frozen, traumatized girl of twenty-five years ago, Jody began to reorient to a new, less threatening world. Gradually she shaped into a more fluid, resilient, woman, coming to terms with the felt capacity to fiercely defend herself when necessary, and to surrender in quiet ecstasy.
Peter A. LevineTag: fear mind memory body healing treatment mental-health terror mental-illness posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ptsd freeze frozen overwhelmed traumatized healing-trauma fight-flight frozen-in-time
So, what role does memory play in the understanding and treatment of trauma? There is a form of implicit memory that is profoundly unconscious and forms the basis for the imprint trauma leaves on the body/mind. The type of memory utilized in learning most physical activities (walking, riding a bike, skiing, etc.) is a form of implicit memory called procedural memory. Procedural or "body memories" are learned sequences of coordinated "motor acts" chained together into meaningful actions. You may not remember explicitly how and when you learned them, but, at the appropriate moment, they are (implicitly) "recalled" and mobilized (acted out) simultaneously. These memories (action patterns) are formed and orchestrated largely by involuntary structures in the cerebellum and basal ganglia.
When a person is exposed to overwhelming stress, threat or injury, they develop a procedural memory. Trauma occurs when these implicit procedures are not neutralized. The failure to restore homeostasis is at the basis for the maladaptive and debilitating symptoms of trauma.
Tag: mind memory body healing treatment mental-health mental-illness posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ptsd overwhelmed traumatized healing-trauma
In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat and defend themselves. The very structure of trauma, including activation, dissociation and freezing are based on the evolution of survival behaviors. When threatened or injured, all animals draw from a "library" of possible responses. We orient, dodge, duck, stiffen, brace, retract, fight, flee, freeze, collapse, etc. All of these coordinated responses are somatically based- they are things that the body does to protect and defend itself. It is when these orienting and defending responses are overwhelmed that we see trauma.
The bodies of traumatized people portray "snapshots" of their unsuccessful attempts to defend themselves in the face of threat and injury. Trauma is a highly activated incomplete biological response to threat, frozen in time. For example, when we prepare to fight or to flee, muscles throughout our entire body are tensed in specific patterns of high energy readiness. When we are unable to complete the appropriate actions, we fail to discharge the tremendous energy generated by our survival preparations. This energy becomes fixed in specific patterns of neuromuscular readiness. The person then stays in a state of acute and then chronic arousal and dysfunction in the central nervous system. Traumatized people are not suffering from a disease in the normal sense of the word- they have become stuck in an aroused state. It is difficult if not impossible to function normally under these circumstances.
Tag: fear mind memory body healing treatment mental-health terror mental-illness posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ptsd freeze frozen overwhelmed traumatized healing-trauma fight-flight frozen-in-time
Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
Peter A. LevineTag: healing gift relief posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ptsd traumatized trauma-experiences traumatic-stress trauma-healing post-traumatic-stress-disorder traumatic-epiphonies posttraumatic-stress
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