{"id":3331,"date":"2012-10-24T12:18:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2012-10-24T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:23:31","slug":"the-social-engagement-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3331","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Social Engagement System&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe more primitive the operating system, the more power it has to take over the overall function of the organism.\u00a0 It does this by inhibiting the more recent and more refined neurological subsystems.\u00a0 In particular, the immobilization system all but completely suppresses the social engagement\/attachment system.\u00a0 When you are \u2018scared to death,\u2019 you have few resources left to orchestrate the complex behaviors that mediate attachment and calming; social engagement is essentially hijacked.\u00a0 The sympathetic nervous system also blocks the social engagement system, but not as completely as does the immobilization system (the most primitive of the three defenses).\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/In-Unspoken-Voice-Releases-Restores\/dp\/1556439431\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Levine, \u201cIn an Unspoken Voice,\u201d<\/a> p101<br \/>\nWow!\u00a0 That just makes total sense of why I can\u2019t call friends for help when I\u2019m triggered, and why the things they say can be very hurtful when I\u2019m triggered and not a problem when I\u2019m not.\u00a0 I call it being triggered into the baby state, where I am truly helpless and lack all my adult behaviors, but I tend to be angry at myself for not being able to handle things better.\u00a0 But the truth is: I am truly paralyzed, truly helpless, unable to \u201corchestrate the complex behaviors that mediate attachment and calming.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s why I need help, the safe presence of another individual who UNDERSTANDS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe more primitive the operating system, the more power it has to take over the overall function of the organism.\u00a0 It does this by inhibiting the more recent and more refined neurological subsystems.\u00a0 In particular, the immobilization system all but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}