A short YouTube transcript excerpt (Dr. Don Wood) explaining how past negative experiences—such as losing a business during COVID—can repeatedly cue memories of danger, provoking anxiety. The clip emphasizes that remembering can be useful for learning, but when those memories dysregulate the nervous system (trauma), they become problematic.
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If you've had some experiences, when things have gone wrong, it could have been even things that you were excited about. You start a new business, you get your business going, and then Covid hits, and now you have to shut down your business. The next time you're thinking, well, I need to do something to make money for my family, and you start thinking about another business, what do you think your mind's going to do? It's going to remember what happened during COVID and it's going to keep bringing that memory of. Of the danger to your attention. So if that reminder keeps coming up, can you see why your mind would get anxious? However, it's okay to remember some of the things because you can learn from them. But when it's dysregulating your nervous system, it's a problem. And that's what trauma tends to do, is dysregulate the nervous system.