Sublime

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

intelligence is not one-dimensional,

While the smoke detector is usually pretty good at picking up danger clues, trauma increases the risk of misinterpreting whether a particular situation is dangerous or safe.

Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.

Our defense mechanisms are invisible methods by which we exclude unacceptable thoughts and feelings from awareness. In the process, they subtly distort our perceptions of reality – in both our personal relationships and the emotional terrain within

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