The right amigula timeless. The right hemisphere where we store the memories of the trauma, especially the right amignola, timeless.

The left hemisphere is time stamps. So if you have a memory that's stored in your left hemisphere

you're most of your day-to-day actions you'll be able to know when it happened and

as it gets further away in the past you won't be as affected by it.

But with emotional experiences stored in the right hemisphere, there is no time stamp.

So events that happen to you when you're three or 12 or 20 can have just as

much affect or just as much of a triggering capability as if it happened yesterday.

So that's one of the reasons why there is no way to maneuver around essentially or hoping that we can

outlast or put behind us trauma because it doesn't go away and it doesn't lose its

ability to create damaging immobilization in our lives, not just through avoidance, but it can turn

into phobias and into all kinds of unconscious strategies where we will literally

navigate our lives in such a way to avoid anything that makes us go back into that

hyper-vigilant or depersonalized state.

The goal of treating trauma is to integrate the memories that are lodged and dissociated from the regular memory systems that are stored in the right of megal

is to be able to transfer these memories from the right hemisphere,

the old parts of the right hemisphere,

to the frontal lobe so that we can emotionally

process what happened and we can talk about what happened so we can integrate the trigger back into our lives.

And when we do studies show when we begin to be able to make meaning and emotionally

process and be able to co-regulate the experience by talking about it, then the PTSD response essentially over time evaporates.

So again, what we're trying to do is take memories, these flash bulb memories that aren't

narrated and aren't emotionally processed,

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