Trauma Expert explains to @Steven Bartlett how trauma truly affects the brain…😧 #brain #trauma #traumaticbraininjury #traumahealing #anxiety #scared #podcast #interview #mentalhealth

If I'm traumatised, talking about my trauma doesn't necessarily fix my trauma. It's a complicated issue. I think language is terribly important. People need to find language. Language is primarily about helping you to organise yourself. Trauma is a speechless experience. So we did the first neuroimaging study about people reliving their trauma and we saw that the entire cognitive part of their brain disappears. When you're in your trauma, you're just one ball of emotion and there's no thinking. You're confused, you're befuddled. As Shakespeare says, you suffer from speechless terror. You become dumbfounded. So the whole traumatic experience is just beyond belief. And so you stay in a state of confusion and agitation. And then finding language for yourself at this point is terribly important to help you to begin to organise your relationship to yourself. It's not enough, but language and defining your experience is terribly important.