06/17/2026
One of the most disorienting things about trauma is that it doesn't behave like a memory. It behaves like a present-tense experience. The brain encodes traumatic events differently, which is why a smell, a tone of voice, or a particular kind of silence can pull you back into something that happened years ago. This is not you being irrational. It is your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do and it can be worked with.
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