Category: Psychology
Why Trauma Bonds Keep You Stuck in Relationships
Trauma bonds can make harmful relationships feel impossible to leave. Emotional dependency, intermittent reinforcement, gaslighting, and the nervous system’s need for safety and connection strengthen trauma bonds. Why trauma bonds keep you stuck in relationships can seem a mystery. This trauma bond story explores why trauma bonds can make it so difficult to get unstuck…
Recent Neuroscience Studies Suggest the Brain Predicts Trauma
A newer study suggests trauma may not be stored in the body tissues like a hidden object. Recent neuroscience studies suggest the brain predicts trauma. Instead, the brain may continue to predict danger based on past experience, causing the body to react as though the threat is still present. This neuroscience and trauma story on…
Trauma Flashbacks And PTSD Are Not Weaknesses
Trauma flashbacks are not ordinary memories. They can make the past feel as though it is happening again in the present, with the body reacting before the mind can understand what is wrong. Trauma Flashbacks and PTSD are not weaknesses This story explores how trauma affects speech, memory, emotion and the nervous system, and why…
Coercive Control Is About Taking Away Someone Else’s Freedom
Coercive control is not simply about someone being difficult or controlling. It is much more than that. Coercive control is about taking away someone else’s freedom. It involves manipulation, control and other methods, such as intermittent reinforcement, which I wrote about here. It begins when one person interferes with another person’s freedom to choose, decide…