The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk (100%)

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Many traumatized people simply give up. Rather than risk experimenting with new options they stay stuck in the fear they know.

Scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening.

I pray you believe what I have said. I reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words.

Me: I'm learning to embrace my mental down turns because it means I'm processing them I'm working through them. So the storm can pass. I can move pass them.

If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love.

If we're in a bad situation we can't do anything about there is learned helplessness

Isolating into social narrow groups only leads to forget alienation. Rarely foster mental flexibility needed to be fully open to what life has to offer.

Agency starts with what scientists call interoception, are awareness of our subtle sensory, body based feelings: the greater that awareness the greater our potential to control our lives.

Alexithymia: not having words for feelings

Truth, like love and sleep, resents Approaches that are too intense

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

We must observe what we see around us and label it correctly; we must also be able to trust our memories and be able to tell them apart from our imagination. ... Erasing awareness and cultivating denial or often essential to survival, but the price is that you lose track of who you are, of what you are feeling, and of what and whom you can trust.

Recollection without affect almost invariably produces no results... unless there is an "energetic reaction" to the traumatic event, the affect "remains attached to the memory" and cannot be discharged. The reaction can be discharged by an action "from tears to acts of revenge" (next chapter) our research did not support the idea that language can substitute for action... CBT has similarly disappointing results

Recovery: Tap acupressure points. EMDR, yoga, dance/act, internal family systems, neurofeedback,

Hrv measures the relative balance between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic systems.

I felt the beginning of panic... but then I was able to stop myself and just say, notice that this part of your body is holding experiences and then just let it go.

IFS: there are many parts to you. They exist for a reason. You need to tell some to step back so you can understand what they were established for, what they were protecting you from. There are no bad parts.

Chemicals may take away the trauma but it is never a permanent solution. Stop taking the chemical and the issue returns. The recovery options allow healing to take place. To move forward from the trauma.

Our sense of agency, how much we feel in control, is defined by our relationship with our bodies and its rhythms.... I'm order to find our voice, we have to be in our bodies - able to breathe fully and able to access our inner sensations. This is the opposite of dissociation, of being out of your body and making yourself disappear.

Traumatized people are terrified to feel deeply. They are afraid to experience their emotions, because emotions lead to a loss of control.

"If you are confusing your emotional experience with your judgements, your work becomes vague" (regarding those with PTSD acting in a theater)

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