Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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I do believe that there is some survival mechanisms built into the brain that will override our conscious efforts.
Yes, there are a number, including "flight, fright, freeze". It's not coming out of the "freeze" part that leads to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic pain triggered by subsequent traumatic life events like a divorce, a traffic acccident, a death in the family, loss of income. How stable a family life you had as a child often predicts how well you'll react to subsequent trauma. That's part of the two-stage trauma process chronicled by Peter Levine in Waking the Tiger, and Levine is a long way from a mumbo-jumbo kind of guy.
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