Trauma release

[poodlebell]

Hi all

Have been thinking about how seroxat w/d leaves the body in a state of trauma and found this,












The Human Brain Overrides the Instinct to Discharge Trauma



Animals in the wild routinely experience life or death situations that stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, dump adrenaline into the bloodstream, and provide the energy or "charge" for a fight, flight or freeze response. When a zebra is chased by a lion, adrenaline surges and the zebra runs for its life (a flight response). When the zebra knows it has reached safety, it instinctively "discharges" the remaining adrenaline energy by trembling, shaking, twitching, and jumping around. Because the animal completely discharges the excess adrenaline energy after the chase is over, it doesn’t hold the memory or the energy of the trauma in its system.

Humans have this same discharge instinct available in our hindbrains, but our frontal lobes overwhelm the hindbrain. Following a traumatic event, we do tremble and shake, but as soon as our frontal lobes engage and become dominant, the discharge process is interrupted, and any remaining excess adrenaline energy is locked into the body.

For example, following a severe car accident, it would be good to shake and tremble until you were done, and you wouldn’t be done until all excess adrenaline energy had been discharged from your system and you felt calm. But you will have to override this shaking and trembling instinct and activate your thinking brain to take down driver’s license and insurance information and answer questions for police reports and emergency responders.Some of the trauma energy may naturally discharge, but the energy remaining in the system when the frontal brain becomes dominant will be stuck there.

When the discharge of trauma energy is interrupted and incomplete, the excess adrenaline is still surging around the body trying to do what it is designed to do: provide energy for a fight, flight, or freeze response. When the frontal brain overrides the hindbrain and demands that the body stop trembling and shaking, the body has to do something to contain the adrenaline energy. So it “freezes” it into body tissues with chemical bonds to hold it still. This frozen energy remains in the tissues and the nervous system until it can be discharged, sometimes for the rest of a person’s life. This held energy can create a multitude of symptoms and compensating behaviors.

Engaging Our Instinct to Discharge Trauma

Somatic Trauma Resolution is a method of engaging the frontal brain in supporting the hindbrain to complete its discharge cycles. Using the conscious awareness to support the hindbrain activates the animal instinct of discharging held adrenaline energy. Once the discharge cycle is activated, the chemical bonds holding the stored trauma energy in the tissues begin to break. The breaking of chemical bonds gives off heat. As the adrenaline energy frozen in the body begins to melt and discharge, the client can actually feel a wide variety of itching, tingling, prickly, bubbly, fizzy, or burning sensations, and may heat up so much as to sweat. These are all indicators that discharge is happening.



poodlebell

[Luc]

Fascinating stuff, Poodlebell. Thank you for sharing it. This passage especially;

Animals in the wild routinely experience life or death situations that stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, dump adrenaline into the bloodstream, and provide the energy or "charge" for a fight, flight or freeze response. When a zebra is chased by a lion, adrenaline surges and the zebra runs for its life (a flight response). When the zebra knows it has reached safety, it instinctively "discharges" the remaining adrenaline energy by trembling, shaking, twitching, and jumping around. Because the animal completely discharges the excess adrenaline energy after the chase is over, it doesn’t hold the memory or the energy of the trauma in its system.

Considering the amount of the "discharge" in the case of WD, we would be able to generate enough electricity for one big city I guess.

[Chris]

This is very interesting. What is the process like for how the forebrain can support the hindbrain to complete the discharge?
I've been trying to recall my dreams and in that arena I also sense some competition between frontal and nether areas of the brain. If I start to wake up and immediately get hooked by frontal thoughts -- waking -type linear thinking--it's very difficult to recall the dreams which are coming from a different place in the brain. but if I can resist the frontal brain override, the dream images float up unbidden. They just appear. They cannot be willed to appear like waking thoughts (that is they aren't goal-oriented like "now I will think about what I need to get from the store"), so paradoxically, trying to will yourself to remember dreams actually drives them further back into the unconscious. I think perhaps dreams can help to discharge pent up trauma -- and they do so whether we recall the specifics of the dream or not.

[squirrel]

very interesting Poodlebell but how do we fix it?

[Junior]

Very interesting. I understand the frontal lobes are the most recent development in the human brain and as the 'executive function' of the brain, it makes sense that it would override the more 'primitive' responses from older parts. I wonder if mindfulness, and just allowing the primitive responses to do their thing, could be the way to release the excess adrenaline,etc?

[Sheila]

I do think humans somehow retain undigested trauma in their bodies, minds, energy fields, etc. But, I don’t think wild animals are immune to this. I think an animal can develop PTSD, too.

But, yeah, humans will somehow hold trauma until they find the conditions (safety, empathy, basic needs, etc.) to bring it out. And, it’s interesting to contemplate that the bringing it out is not all peaches and cream. It has an element of detox, with all the irritation and hard work for the system that detox entails.

Interesting. Thanks for posting this, p.

[Sheila]

annie –that’s one good way of looking at dreaming – as a kind or detox of metabolization.

[grandmaD]

I saw a doctor on tv say this same thing. A viscious dog was chasing his sons and one boy ran for his life. He (flight) used his adrenaline to run away. The other boy waited for the dog and attacked it (fight). The wife stood still, like they tell you to do and not look the dog in the eye so she kept her arms by her side like they say to do and kept turning around and around so as not to look at the dog. Afterwards, the 2 boys were fine, but the wife was a mess and her blood pressure was high. He was saying something like you have written - the wife used neither fight nor flight and the pent up whatever caused the high BP. I cannot remember now what he said to do in a situation like she faced, as to how to get rid of it! I think the concentration ran out at that point! Anyone have any ideas?

[grandmaD]

I have heard that dreams are a way of releasing pent up emotion. If you can remember the dream, ask yourself how you felt in the dream and it will trigger the actual real life event and its feelings and then you can talk it through with someone else.

[Luc]

He was saying something like you have written - the wife used neither fight nor flight and the pent up whatever caused the high BP.

Very interesting.