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Lesson 2: How Trauma Affects Behaviors and Relationships

Recognizing how trauma can trigger hyperreactive behaviors.

Ever experienced one of those out-of-body moments when you feel yourself reacting in an overblown or unnecessarily irritated way, but you just … can’t … control it?

Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Bessel van der Kolk says this is especially common for trauma survivors, many of whom end up feeling further ashamed as a result, even if they have a level of …

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