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Its not our fault we don’t know. It’s Our Brains #PTSD #Trauma #SexualAssault #RapeSurvivors #SchoolShooting #Abuse #Anxiety #quietbpd
I was recommended the book “The Body Keeps the Score” written by Bessel Van Der Kulk. In the first chapter, which I’m reading now, he explains something about trauma Id like to share.
“Research from these new disciplines (neuroscience, developmental psychotherapy, and interpersonal neurobiology) has revealed that trauma produces actual physiological changes, including a recalibration of the brain’s alarm system, an increase in stress horizons activity, and alterations in the system that filters relevant information from irrevant. We know that trauma compromises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feeling of being alive. These changes explain why traumatized individuals become hypervigilant to threat at the expense of spontaneously engaging in their day-to-day lives. They also help us understand why traumatized people so often keep repeating the same problems and have such trouble learning from experiance. We now know that their behaviors are not the result of moral failings or signs of lack of willpower or bad character— they are caused by actual changes in the brain.”
I feel this is very important to share. Those I trust get upset with me because I’m told I learn slower than most. I’ve always struggled to differentiate important information from non important information which caused high amounts of stress. In my trauma I was blamed for moral failings and I felt I lost any willpower to my person. I use to explain to people, “he (my assaulter) took more from me than I can say. He stripped me of any morals and values I had and I lost my person entirely. I was not living in my body.” But this helps explain it in a sense where I feel other people can understand and acknowledge. I also hope this helps some people feel more validated in what they’ve experienced and how it’s changed who they are.
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