Andrew Huberman· PhD
He defines trauma as an event or something that fundamentally changes the way that your nervous system works such that you function less adaptively going forward from that event.
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He defines trauma as an event or something that fundamentally changes the way that your nervous system works such that you function less adaptively going forward from that event.
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The operational definition of trauma is that some fear took place which of course includes stress and anxiety and that fear somehow gets embedded or activated in our nervous system such that it shows up at times when it's maladaptive meaning that fear doesn't serve us well and it gets reactivated at various times.