Research shows early experience of trauma can disrupt the brain’s stress response, affecting the amygdala (the brain’s alarm system), hippocampus (verbal memory center), prefrontal cortex (the CEO of the brain and stress regulator). These changes make people with too much early trauma more chemically reactive to stress in general as a teenager or adult. It’s as if these early negative experiences feed our reactions to current stressors. That being said, we all know some pretty successful and happy
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