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Trapped Emotions And Trauma
It’s impossible to have a conversation about trapped emotions without exploring trauma, especially how the brain experiences it. Nearly everyone experiences trauma at some point in their lives.
➖Trauma can come about through life experiences like:
▪️a breakup.
▪️a major life change.
▪️the death of a loved one.
▪️infidelity in a relationship.
▪️loss of a job.
▪️an experience of violence, discrimination, or racism.
Trauma can impact cognitive processes. It especially affects memory processing and the ability to recall factual information, or explicit memory. As a result, the traumatic experience or memory is not “logged” properly in the brain.
When triggered, the brain may disconnect from reality or replay the traumatic event in the form of a flashback. This is known as dissociation, or psychological disconnect. These sensory fragments remain in the mind and interrupt the brain’s natural recovery process.
When trauma isn’t processed or resolved on its own, it may linger far past the actual event. This is often seen in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a condition that develops after a person undergoes terrifying or life-threatening events.
Research shows that those with current PTSD have a smaller hippocampus, a center for emotions and memory in the brain.
# Where are trapped emotions stored in the body?
Ever feel a tightness in your chest during an anxiety-inducing situation?Or do you notice that it feels good to stretch your hips after an emotionally draining day? Where one person feels tension or sensitivity in their bodies might not be the same for another.
Some studies,however,provide a baseline for where emotions are generally experienced.But there’s still more research needed on this subject for conclusive takeaways.
One such study from 2013 led by a team of biomedical engineers in Finland sought to explain where emotions are felt in the body. They mapped bodily reactions to emotions in about 700 individuals by asking them to color in regions where they felt reactions increasing or decreasing due to various stimuli.
They found that different emotions were associated with different bodily sensations that were generally the same for participants across the board.