Can You Date Someone Healing From Trauma?
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Julia Austin
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You can’t rush things
“Recovery takes time. Be patient in your partner’s growth,” advises Burgess. It could be easier to find patience if you better understand the brain of a trauma survivor. Every human mind has certain systems in place that activate when there is a perceived threat. However, the simplest way to explain trauma brain, is that the mind keeps these systems active, all of the time, or much of the time, even when there is no perceived threat. This person lives in a heightened state of anxiety, preparing for a threat that is (probably) not coming.
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