How do you know if you’re traumatized?

…Then you need to read this:

Because the psychiatric community focuses on the “problems” patients have like:

• Insomia 

• Trouble eating

• Issues maintaining quality work at their job or school

Yes those are valid criterias for determining whether someone meets the clinical diagnosis of trauma or not…

But what if I told you there is a biological component that lets you determine if you’re suffering with trauma (without relying on expensive talk therapy)?

Let me explain…

It starts with the concept of interoceptive vs. exteroceptive balance.

Now this might sound confusing and like it’s a bunch of fancy scientific word smithing. But it’s actually a simple concept to understand.

• You can focus on the external world around you (outside of your skin)

• Or you can focus on the internal world (events inside of your skin)

You have the ability to stop and interpret both events right?

You can notice a grumble in your stomach and realize how hungry you are. 

Learned fear mechanisms and trauma come from taking those external experiences, and funneling those experiences into internal experience that researches call:

“The threat reflux”

A recent paper published in the journal of science addressed the issue of where in our mind, and how do we assess whether or not what we are feeling internally is reasonable given what’s going on in our external world.

In the study, mice were conditioned to be alert to a danger signal.

Basically, the mice would hear a sound, then they would feel a shock on their feet. Eventually the sound by itself evokes “Pavolian leaning”. The brain's circuitry learned that hearing the sound creates the fear response (even when there isn’t a shock).

The insula inside the brain determines whether the internal sensations, like increased heart rate, are reasonable depending on the external circumstances.

Therefore, the intensity of an external event, determines the intensity of an internal event.

An example would be if you experience a big shock, you would get a big increase in heart rate or blood pressure.

Now here’s the problem…

If the insula learns that a big stressor should create a big internal event. It can relate similar sounds, smells, or sensations, to trigger a big internal event even when there isn’t danger.

Like the mouse hearing a sound, but there’s no shock present.

Another example would be someone gently touching your shoulder. If you get jumpy from a small response you have a low threshold to a big fear response.

Now that’s one way to identify if you have trauma…

You can find out all the other ways to self diagnose trauma. You can find the diagnostic process of body mapping, triggered symptoms exercises, and testing variability (along with how to recalibrate your insula’s relationship between internal and external events)...

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–Brian