What Trauma Does To Your Brain

Trauma is a deeply complex and often misunderstood topic, and its effects can be profound, reaching far beyond the initial experience. In this video, we explore the fascinating and important question: What does trauma do to your brain?

#trauma #brain

Researcher/Writer: Se Joon Park
Editor: Caitlin McColl
Script Manager: Kelly Soong
Animator: Evelvaii
YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong

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[Psychgo]

With the events going on around the world, how's everyone holding up?

[sophiaisabelle]

Trauma, whether self-inflicted or the other way around, can be extremely harmful. It doesn't just fade away whenever you want it to. It leaves this permanent mark that will leave you thinking about all your past decisions you've made in your life and all the regrets that you still want a little bit of closure on. Somehow everyone deals with their own traumas very differently.

[Aan]

Timestamps
1). Amygdala 0:34
2). Hippocampus 1:42
3). Prefrontal cortex 2:38

Hope this helps you out. Hope you have a nice day. 💙💙💙💙💙💙

[rkvnwxz]

Facts can’t be changed and the person giving me the trauma can’t be changed either. Today, instead of remaining silent and frozen, I confronted my mother and spoke how I’ve been feeling by her verbal abuse which she never admitted or rather justified that for some reasons. It’s hard to leave a house with her and other trauma generating members for a financial reasons but at least I tried!
It took so long to do that but yes, I got out of the pattern a bit!

[kawiianimekitty]

I can't remember anything from my childhood. All I know is my siblings and I were heavily abused and my brain just closed off everything from before I was 13 when I was finally taken out of that environment

[prof._spurklebut]

I've had trauma when I was 5 cause of my dog getting ran over by a car and saving my life 😔😢. R.i.p slow ur still my angel

[khejunoolarte]

To be honest with all of ya'll I didn't even know I have trauma, anxieties and Depression until today today. My past is just "suck it and walk it off", "You'll be fine, man up"

That's probably why I don't have any idea I'm depressed or not. Or anxious or not

[everrgreen]

Thank you so much for this video! It’s a great reminder to not blame myself of be too hard on myself when things seem to take more time for me. Sometimes it really feels like a life full of trauma has made me “dumb”. I was able to function normally til I was 19, but then had a mental breakdown from all the trauma I had endured growing up. Before that I never even had to seriously study for any tests and would pass my exams with high grades. After being diagnosed with cptsd my iq has even dropped, which was very hard for me to accept. My intelligence was the only thing I took pride in and now it was gone. Couldn’t remember anything, anything that had to with using your logic/solving skills (like math, physics but also even my finances) dropped below zero and I was incapable of doing it and my concentration was completely gone. I eventually did manage to achieve some things, but have honestly always been ashamed. I worked in mental health and would tell people to do things that I didn’t even want for myself. Last year I had to take a step back in a big way. Giving myself that time is slowly helping me to cope in a better way. Before last year I hadn’t been able to read books for over 12/13 years, but this last year I am finally reading books again and when I can’t, I listen to them and am still proud when I finish an audiobook. Anyone who survived trauma deserves grace. Grace from people around you, but mostly from yourself. Choosing to go on - even if in a different way - is strong as hell. Sending lots of love to all survivors out there!❤

[VanshikaGupta-ekov]

I am body shamed from my childhood and yes it already affected me and i being traumatised physically and mentally...

[jimmy-stevenbiemans]

I always had the assumption that it was easy to gain access to professional help watching these videos, but it is nearly impossible. I live in the Netherlands, and healthcare providers are held in chokehold by insurance companies, so you get as little help as possible with the most amount of effort invested by you to get it. It is a discouraging campaign, and I am tired of not getting the help I need. And since I am from The Netherlands, I belong to the privileged ones of the world. I wonder how bad other people of the world have it, if that is the case. Anyway, thank you for the video, I love any topic related to neuropsychology 🙏🏻🧠

[Rookie-wliu]

My pre-frontal cortex is damaged. And I lack certain abilities & suffer for it in a moderate way every so often. But I'm slowly being rehabilitated

[kryssysmith]

I actually have functional neurological disease, which is my PTSD manifesting in physical involuntary movements. That's how bad my trauma was, I'm taking it one day at a time. I am trying to get myself help there is rehab available for this disease and I'm on a wait list for it.

[mojo_joju]

I always had trouble telling the difference between trauma and tough life lessons.
I'd like to think that they're both one of the same, but if that was the case, then why am I miserable?

[peacekeeperharmony]

I love that we get to share and talk about this so that we can help each other together and it’s going great!!😍my family and I have had trauma and we struggle at times, yet with video and other things, we’re doing much better now and thanks so much!! we hope you’re all doing great everyone and if you want, we have something that might help!! thanks so much again everyone and have a magical time!!🤩

[laurenl]

Thanks for this video, that makes a lot of sense why I react to minor things majorly. Therapy helps, but it’s hard. I do talk therapy and EMDR therapy.

[raffaeledangelo]

I just wanna ask a thing because i experienced a lot of loss im 16 and from 2014 i've lost all of my grandparents of diseases and my uncles in an accident i've noticed that a lot of my friends often tell me that i look like i lost my expressions like when i laugh its not even a laugh anymore and when im happy i don't even smile is it because of trauma?

[CRYZTALSUBZZ]

can you make a video talking about selective mutism? It would mean a lot for me and those who has it since it’s so misunderstood and not many people know about it.

[crow]

I had my far share of trauma over the years it's made me who I am i definitely see the world in a different way and how I feel about people

[annecantgame]

I would love to do a study on functional MRI's or CT scans to see how different the brain functions/ looks with people who have trauma. They do this with serial killers and they're physically different than someone who doesn't commit murder.

[xtalpax]

Within a week i dreamed 2 times about my ex sport group;in the group there was a girl that i knew that i have fall in love with.I thought about the girl sometime s, even dreamed about, but never all of them, and the thing is, must be 5 years I don't see them(even if i still thought about them sometimes, especially the girl)
Bit of context here:my 18th year is for now the worst i have ever felt, my families didnt even greet me back from school because of the bad grades-i had the sensation my friends in school stopped caring about me(looking back maybe they simply didn't know what to do, since one of them invited me to his birthday but i found excuses because I didn't want to see them, or maybe i was scared?)and in sport(With the girl i liked we were about to, idk, "go the next step" and start a relationship, since i believe the feeling was from both, however since she was really good at her discipline she started training elsewhere with another team that let her compete in higher contest, but AFAIK she didn't tell anyone, not even me, from there for me in the team all started going dowhill, they simply took my "distance" as normal and did nothing);I started seeing black in everyone to the point that i didnt want the celebrate my 18th birthday because i thought none deserved to be there.I was sick of them all, before the summer started i literally couldn't find any reason to get out of bed, months passed and i re started my life one step at the time, but in this years, wherever i met one of my ex friends, i was just happy to see them.And then the usual thought of " i should check them out, but during this time no-one of theme, with few exceptions, had never done the same".Im 23 now, thought i had moved on, but i still think about if things could have been different, if i or them acted with more care towards each other...
I miss her, and some of them, but how do i know if im delusional, and while they moved on i am here thinking all of that?