What is trauma The author of The Body Keeps the Score explains
What is trauma The author of The Body Keeps the Score explains, with Bessel van der Kolk Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube Up next How to heal trauma with meaning: A case study in emotional evolution, BJ Miller Contrary to popular belief, trauma is extremely common. We all have jobs, life events, and unpleasant situations causing us daily stress. But when your body continues to relive that stress for days, weeks, months, or even years, that stress changes your brain, creating trauma inside your mind, and that trauma can eventually manifest in your physical body. As you can see, trauma isnt what happens to you, but how you respond to the traumatic situation. Something that is traumatic to one person may be no big deal to the next. Whether something becomes traumatic or not has a great deal to do with whos around you while you experience this e
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