This Is What Trauma Does to Your Nervous System | Dylan Vanas featuring Elisabeth Carson

I literally had guns in my face before I ran through a gunfight. I heard a bullet like frick my ear. Your nervous system is open, like your vagus nerve is activated. You're social, you know, you're feeling good. And then you have fight or flight. You have dorsal vagal, which is shut down, dissociated, and you can even faint at this point. So it's literally a physiological response that happens within the body and the nervous system that shuts you down so much that you're not consciously there anymore. And then what will happen is your brain will actually repress those memories so you won't even have access to them anymore. More because I was repressing so much. And then I was disassociated through my teens and early 20s, and I had no fear. I literally had in my face before I ran through a— I heard a bullet like my ear. I was doing crazy stuff, and that is a physiological response to trauma.