![]() ![]() Traumatic experiences rewire the brain to cause people to be hypervigilant to threats: The slightest hint of a threat sends trauma sufferers into a fight-or-flight response, triggering stress hormones to flood their bodies and keep them in a state of hyperarousal long after the perceived threat is gone. The effects of trauma live on not only in the emotional mind and the chemical makeup and circuitry of the brain, but also in the body’s physiology. Incorrect diagnoses led to ineffective treatments and patients’ continued suffering. Until just a few decades ago, there was no umbrella diagnosis for trauma instead, patients were wrongly diagnosed with depression, mood disorders, substance abuse, even schizophrenia. Trauma can stem from a one-time event or an ongoing experience-from abuse to a severe car accident to wartime combat-and can cause a lifetime of flashbacks, nightmares, isolation, insomnia, hypervigilance, and rage. ![]() In The Body Keeps the Score, the author explores how the understanding and treatment of trauma has evolved as new technologies, research, and fields of science emerged. ![]() Trauma has become one of those broad psychological terms that is often thrown around but seldom truly understood even in the field of psychiatry, trauma has historically been a nebulous term with a wide range of symptoms and treatments. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of The Body Keeps the Score ![]()
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