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What happens when infant-childhood trauma survivors can never physiologically feel safe and secure? How much can we learn to consciously influence the anxiety response process?

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I am posting the link to the pages I wrote shortly after the worst of my breast cancer treatment. My hope is that there is something in these humble pages that might help someone else.

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Some more words I am pondering, sent to me by my friend (and some BPD links)

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A poem found and saved by Dorothy, my Alaskan homesteading neighbor friend, for 45 years — sent to me today, posted here for you: “Staying Alive.”

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The more we can understand how infant-childhood trauma changed our physiological development, the more we can get on with the WHOLE business of healing: What 2 musical children showed me about happiness.

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How different ‘mental health’ and ‘mental illness’ (including dissociation, depersonalization and derealization) would look if ONLY severe infant-child abuse survivors could define it!

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Research on isolation: Another example of stupid science!

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How much vicious screaming, yelling and shouting did you hear from before the time you were old enough to begin to know what words were? How much terrifying noise was directed at YOU?

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Emotions, regulation, and consciousness: At the same time I can mourn for who I could have become if I had not been so traumatized as an infant-child, I can also celebrate that I did not lose the wonderful abilities that I DO have even though I survived such trauma.

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Our emotions are our internal guidance system — and early abuse changes our Windows of Tolerance for them, and how we react to them in our body.

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