Understanding Trauma's Impact on the Body

Your body has ancient survival circuits like fight, flight, freeze,

and collapse, and trauma gets those circuits stuck on. Trauma survivors

react as if the danger never ended. The problem isn't the memory, it's the physiological

state that remains activated. Trauma activates the amygdala, your brain's smoke

alarm, which becomes hypersensitive. Logical thinking goes offline, explaining why you

lose control. The fight or flight system was meant for survival, but trauma locks

it into overdrive. Your body remembers the state of the trauma: tension, terror,

collapse, numbness. Trauma survivors don't choose their reactions,