Trauma leaves your nervous system stuck in high alert. When emotional experiences aren't processed at the time they happen, they pile up over years, so minor triggers eventually trigger intense panic. The difference: normal anxiety comes and goes; trauma anxiety keeps your body in constant alarm.
I figured the physical symptoms, right, makes complete sense. But I hadn't really considered that chronic stress or anxiety would also be symptoms, let's say, of trauma kind of manifesting.
Yeah, and it is important to distinguish here. Having anxiety on its own is a natural response for the system. It is when it's happened constantly and it's a pattern, like you feel panicking and anxiety from almost anything. Like anything happened, you go in this. This is like your nervous system is exhausted from being in this threat form. And because whatever trauma have happened hasn't been released correctly at the time it has happened. So you lived years accumulating this. So there is a difference between the normal reactions that we have to have and how regular they appear in our life.
