Loss of Self-Awareness Due to PTSD

Trauma has the potential to hijack the brain. In fact, in the aftermath of the horror of the situations that trauma sufferers experience, their bodies cease to belong to them. In effect, they experience a loss of bodily self-awareness. Consequently, their bodies activate at the slightest hint of danger. It prevents them from ‘being themselves’ as their physical symptoms take over. Many brain areas participate in this ‘corporal hijacking’. However, the most important is probably the amygdala. This structure is common to all mammals. It’s the region that allows us to feel and, above all, to survive. “Trauma makes us…