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by irrational
1306 days ago
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Yes, that helps. I guess I've just been fortunate to never have had a traumatic experience since I've never felt anything like "The full body pulsing heartbeat, the choking/crushing feeling in the chest, the need to fight right now, the overpowering rage that can happen, the near blindness from the tunnel vision, the punch in the gut. It’s different, depending, but it shares common themes." |
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For anyone that does recognize some of these, or if you do ever feel anything like that, be aware that internal acceptance (in a ‘this is happening’ sense, not necessarily ‘this is healthy for me’ sense), awareness, and working through it are more healthy than suppressing or ignoring it. There are tools to work through these things. It does require work and time.
There are other trauma cascade reactions. Externally, trauma reactions also include being overly friendly to someone attacking you, freezing up and not taking action due to brain lock, running away even if you knew what to do due to an overwhelming sense of fear, denial/avoidance of major problems (to the degree of delusion), etc.
Most of them have distinctive physical reactions that proceed them, and individuals will usually have a specific tendency towards one of them by default, but it is heavily modifiable with training - to a point.