Neurobiological
- An overproduction of stress hormones that when activated do not return to normal but can endure for hours or days as identified below:
- Jittery, trembling
- Exaggerated startle response
- Alarm system in the brain remains “on”; creating difficulty in reading faces and social cues; misinterpreting other people’s behaviour or events as threatening, sleep difficulty and the need to avoid situations that are perceived to be frightening
- Part of the brain systems change by becoming smaller or bigger than they are supposed to be
- Fight, flight, freeze response (which may look different from person to person)
- Responses are involuntary
"Everyone has a right to have a present and future that are not completely dominated and dictated by the past" - Karen Saakvitne
