Stress in the womb or early childhood rewires your limbic system. Prenatal maternal stress, infections, antibiotics, parental absence, and abuse all trigger this response and can shape how you handle stress for years.
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Being in the uterus, floating in this amniotic fluid. And life is wonderful, but not if your mom is going through great upheaval. So it could start then or any time. None of us have had perfect childhoods I haven't seen. It doesn't exist. Depending on what you had, or as a child, say recurrent ear infections or throat infections or tons of antibiotics, or more problematic parents who weren't there for you, they were so busy working that you would just fend for yourself. Or even worse, abuse of any type, emotional, sexual, physical abuse, surgeries that you may have had. Any or all of these particular stressors get the attention of our limbic system.