➡️The impact of traumatic stress on your body is ☠️‼️ Last year, I collapsed and went through experiences I had NEVER known or heard of before. Our bodies are equipped with sensory receptors that relay information about our environments to our brains-like surveillence. Apparently, I was sooo chronically stressed that my brainstem and thalamus flagged my environment as being life-threatening, activating my nervous system's emergency protocol - the "life threat response" (LTR). 🚨 Yeah, we have that. And yep, I had no clue either. I discovered how fortunate I was to wake up, given that the LTR can, in extreme cases, lead to sudden death. This response plunged my nervous system into Default Mode, our most primitive survival mechanism. 😱 I felt like a computer that had crashed and rebooted in "safe mode," with limited access to my own thoughts, almost like being half dead. The most terrifying part? I didn't experience any warning signs beforehand! I needed to get help & understand wh...