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Trauma's Grip: Unveiling Its Impact on Your Emotions #shorts

Name: Trauma's Grip: Unveiling Its Impact on Your Emotions #shorts
Uploaded: 2025-10-20T17:41:34+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Joe Fier
Description: Joe Fier explains why trauma survivors shake and cry recalling past events. Boston Marathon bombing survivors, five and a half years later, still react…

20 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Joe Fier explains why trauma survivors shake and cry recalling past events. Boston Marathon bombing survivors, five and a half years later, still react as if the explosion is happening now. When a memory triggers that response, the trauma is still active in your brain.

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October 20, 2025.

The Boston Marathon bombing.

Five and a half years ago.

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When you ask somebody, oh, what happened five years ago, like when I worked with the Boston Marathon bombing survivors, they would start talking about it and start shaking and crying. And I would say, do you know why you're shaking and crying? They said, well, because I'm talking about what happened to me. And I said, right. But your mind thinks there's a bomb about to go off. That bomb went off five and a half years ago. But when your mind goes into memory to start describing it, it's actually seeing the memory right now, thinking it's happening all over again. Here's the best way to understand if the trauma is affecting you. If you start to talk about it and you get emotional, it's active.