{"id":6169,"date":"2019-06-17T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2019-07-04T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T19:56:08","slug":"three-ways-trauma-can-change-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6169","title":{"rendered":"Three Ways Trauma Can Change the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

This came in an email, and I thought it was important enough to share with people who were interested in trauma: \u00a0 Three ways trauma changes the brain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first is that the threat perception system becomes more sensitive. \u00a0Things are perceived as threats that really aren’t. \u00a0The amygdala, which is a kind of danger sensing device, has a hair trigger. \u00a0I’ve seen this in myself. \u00a0I learned to call it “false urgency<\/a>” so I could catch myself and not rush out to take care of something that didn’t need it right away.<\/p>\n

False urgency can also be triggered by the fact that the brain’s “filtering system,” which distinguishes between what’s immediately relevant and what can be put off, is not functioning properly. \u00a0This is the second way trauma changes the brain.<\/p>\n

The third way is that your ability to sense what is going on inside yourself is blunted. \u00a0It has been a long hard struggle for me to learn to accept my limitations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The “threat perception system” is in the oldest part of the brain, the reptilian part of the brain. \u00a0That makes it much less amenable to cognitive correction. \u00a0The “filtering system” \u00a0and the ability to sense what’s going on inside are in a more evolved part of the brain, and so more amenable to conscious interference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This came in an email, and I thought it was important enough to share with people who were interested in trauma: \u00a0 Three ways trauma changes the brain. The first is that the threat perception system becomes more sensitive. \u00a0Things … Continue reading →<\/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":[19,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-link","category-present-day","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169","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=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}