Amber Hollingsworth explains how trauma hijacks relationships through fight-or-flight responses. When survival mechanisms kick in, people shut down or lash out even when they're trying to connect. Conscious effort can't always override what your nervous system learned to do.
And he was like, Amber, is this going to be forever? Is this never going to get over? And I felt bad for her. I felt bad for him because both people in this scenario were trying so hard and they were getting better in so many ways, but they were still really struggling. I knew what she was going through and how it feels. This trauma symptoms, what happens is your body just gets into like fight or flight response and you either shut down or you get really angry and you start a fight. And when you're in a trauma space, there's hardly any controlling that. It takes over. It's very overwhelming. You're being ran by your survival mechanisms.
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