Brad Schipke explains that PTSD isn't the traumatic event itself, but how your brain stores and reacts to it. When your nervous system stays stuck in survival mode, the trauma stays alive in your brain. Processing the trauma at its root can reset your nervous system so you remember the event without reliving it.
2 people can go through the same event, and one might process it and move on, and the other one might stay stuck in survival mode. That's because PTSD isn't about the event itself, it's how your brain stores it. If your nervous system never shuts off, then the trauma stays alive in your brain, and that's PTSD. It's the mind and the body reacting to the past as if it's still happening in the present. But it doesn't have to stay that way. Once you fully process the trauma at the root, your nervous system resets and you feel calm and safe again. You can remember what happened without reliving it, And that's what full recovery is. So if you want to learn how to get there, make sure to subscribe and watch some of my longer videos.
