Understanding Trauma's Impact on the Brain

Psychiatry once treated mental pain like broken chemistry, handing out labels and pills while

ignoring the actual story behind your suffering. Then trauma science revealed something

crucial: your brain physically rewires itself under overwhelming stress. Suddenly,

countless patients with disorder diagnoses were recognized as trauma survivors whose bodies stored

pain their minds couldn't even access. Trauma hijacks your alarm system and shuts down the brain

regions that handle logic, emotion regulation, and connection. This explains why

present triggers launch you back into survival mode, why your body remembers what your mind tries

to forget. You're not dramatic, oversensitive, or broken. Your reactions have