Frequently Asked Questions About Trauma & Recovery
Clear, trauma-informed answers to the most common questions about PTSD, complex trauma, nervous system responses, and healing.
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Why Am I Always on Edge or Hypervigilant?
How the nervous system learns constant threat detection and why it doesn’t shut off automatically.
Why Do I Shut Down Emotionally?
Why emotional withdrawal develops and how shutdown protects against overwhelm.
Why Do I Overreact to Small Things?
Understanding emotional flashbacks and survival-based reactions.
Why Do I Feel Unsafe When Nothing Is Wrong?
How the body remembers danger long after the threat is gone.
Why Do I Feel Numb or Disconnected?
When emotional absence is a form of protection, not emptiness.
Why Do I Sabotage Relationships?
How attachment trauma shapes closeness, conflict, and withdrawal.
Trauma Fragmentation
What psychological fragmentation is, why it occurs, and how parts-based survival responses form.
Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
Answers about developmental trauma, prolonged exposure, and identity disruption.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Clear explanations of PTSD symptoms, causes, and nervous system responses.
Trauma Healing
Evidence-informed answers about what healing looks like and how recovery unfolds.
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