Confusion
A client of mine once told me that as a young child he was playing contentedly in his room one day when he noticed how
A client of mine once told me that as a young child he was playing contentedly in his room one day when he noticed how
The clearest objective example of the Freeze response in humans is the deer-caught-in-the headlights look. In it, an individual appears to be unresponsive to their
The Flight response is, like Fight, a biologically driven action. As part of the autonomic nervous system, Flight’s job is to respond to life threatening
A man sits in his car, traffic inching along, everything slowed but steadily moving. Music playing as background to the crawl home. The pace quickens,
In the first installment of my Primer on PTSD, I laid out some of the perimeters of PTSD from a diagnostic framework along with some
The letters PTSD have attained an institutional place now in American culture, letters that most people have heard of through the media or from friends,