Emotions

  • Emotional states reflect physiological changes in the body

Memory

  • Repeated experience encourages memory formation. The combination of internal stressors, and perceptual and cognitive stimuli produce traumatic memories

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Trauma

  • Trauma affects brain development
  • For example, a person may experience intense fear (a surge in stress hormones) of rejection from a partner, triggered by an early memory (even unconscious) of parental rejection. Repeated exposure to analogous situations reinforces a physiological reaction
  • Similarity between physical and psychological pain1

Footnotes

  1. Eisenberger, Naomi I. “The Neural Bases of Social Pain: Evidence for Shared Representations With Physical Pain.” Psychosomatic Medicine 74, no. 2 (2012): 126–35. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0b013e3182464dd1.˄


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