Survival Rewired Under Chronic Trauma

I'm curious about how the body rewires itself under the weight of chronic trauma,

turning a survival instinct into a permanent architecture of the mind and body.

The HPA axis exists in a state of permanent dysregulation. Negative feedback loops

have become hypersensitized. The result is a chronically low baseline of

cortisol. Because of this, circulating adrenaline remains in the system without being neutralized.

The organism stays in biological high alert. Sustained stress leads to atrophy

of the hippocampus. The capacity that times that memory is lost. Simultaneously,

the amygdala shows neurohypertrophy, the alarm system physically expressed. The blend from