The Body Keeps the Score
Epidemic
Child abuse is a hidden, silent epidemic.
Trauma
- Trauma changes the body
- Difficult to engage in intimate relationships.
- You no longer trust yourself or anyone else.
- Feeling shame about how they behave during a traumatic episode.
- Emotional numb.
- Trauma event becomes identity.
Treatments
- Talking therapy, rewire your brain
- Drug to dampen hyperactive brain
- Physical experience that contradict negative emotions from trauma
Drugs
- Drugs work but may have done much harm as good
- Suppress problems without addressing the underlying issues
Features
- Timeless reliving
- Re experiencing images, sounds, and emotions
- Dissociation
Quotes
- The acting-out kids tend to get attention; the blanked-out ones don't bother anybody and are left to lose their future bit by bit.