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What is PTSD and Why Does it Occur? Post-traumatic stress disorder is a name given to complex symptoms experienced because of a traumatizing event. Our body mobilizes various survival mechanisms such as the autonomic nervous system’s fight-or-flight response, repression, dissociation, self-harm, memory loss, and building up walls to help us cope with difficult life events. […]

Life brings unexpected challenges and events, which shake us up so deeply that our body, mind, and spirit activate different survival mechanisms to alleviate our suffering. We become numb or we even “erase” events from our consciousness so that we can continue living our life as peacefully as possible. The trouble is that trauma is