How Trauma Is Stored In The Body

Trauma impacts us all in different ways, but one thing that happens is that it gets held in the body. In this video, I explain how trauma is stored in the body.

Trauma is when we have an overload of too many stresses or pressures at any one moment in our life. It can be experiencing too many emotions and going through many events or circumstances for our body to process.

Significant loads or events that haven't been digested and processed get stored in the body and come out in various ways. How you feel or don't feel and how you respond to your feelings and emotions determines how these things are held in your body. Because ultimately, stress, trauma, and overload impact your emotional and physical body. Your body can heal, but to heal we have to be in a healing state.

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[christinemorgan]

I’m 76 and suffering from the result of 3 traumas . An emotionally abusive mother, a violent husband and recently losing my wonderful second husband who was the first person to love me unconditionally from a cruel 7 year dementia

[stephanievaughn]

I currently have so much of this, I also have a constant state of anxiety and ITS EXHAUSTING!! I am crying right now and can't stop!!

[mwngw]

My physical symptoms of early trauma: lifelong high blood pressure, heart palpitations, anxiety, frantic feeling, feeling overwhelmed, constipation, teeth grinding, overthinking, ruminating ideas, catastrophic ideation.

[jennyh.e.]

The trauma in my body shows as depression, anxiety, catastrophic thoughts, a feeling of hopelessness and that my body and mind just shut down and became chronically tired.

[maciejsiedziako]

That’s how I feel about my trauma: disconnected, tense, sense of unease, expecting punishment or humiliation, just dead, unwilling to breathe - holding my breath.

[frandemiany]

I am a 75 year old retired Psychologist who worked with complex trauma survivors for much of my years in practice. I have been practicing Mindfulness and my work brought me to videos on trauma. And now i must acknowledge that I have never worked through my own history of trauma. My own trauma starts at age 9 months when I became paralyzed from the next to feet from the Polio virus. I spent the next 6 months living in a hospital, went home to my parents, and "worked through" the effects of Polio. At age 12, I was run over by a school bus mainly on my paralyzed leg. I realize today that it is time for me to use my Mindfulness practice and more to work through my own trauma as it continues to affect my life and my relationships. Thank you for this video.

[houndmother]

To me, its been stored in my body in the form of depression, anxiety, panic attacks and disorder, chronic pain, and fatigue.

[Risingphoenixx]

Hi, i, m 57, living in Europe. My After getting a neuromusculaire disease called Myasthenia Gravis when i was young, it happened at age 18. It was an very traumatic experience, couldn, t talk properly, couldn, t eat, swallow, or drink. I was a rebel before that ( but i always struggled with insecurity and low self esteem ) This horrific period lasted more than a year before getting Surgery. They removed the thymus via open heart surgery. I developed an anxiety disorder, agoraphobia and severe depression. The surgery was successful, i recovered mostly but have some restsymptoms but i, ve never got rid of the trauma which caused psychosomatic symptoms in the mouth/ throatarea., still do. It took 30 years before i had EMDR, no psychiatrist or whatever doctor ever mentioned PTSD like you talk about.Wish they had they had the knowledge just as you explained me in the video. I worked, didn, t last very long each time. A 23 years relationship/ marriage with someone with BPD traumatised me on another level, but i was very codependent. In the meantime the last three years my parents died who were always my biggest support, my dog died who was my biggest friend and my partner for who i sacrified so much dumped me with just a text message because i crashed and got ( not notacible on the scan) braindamage from ten years care taking for my elderly mother with dementia. Emotional exhausted, no support from any doctor.I, ve been completely on my own for the last years fighting every day to heal from this all. What a story Hey? There are many man who want me but i can, t Although i want it so badly. I wish i could end my life. This is how difficult it all is. Thanks for reading, i, m glad that i can share this anonymous

[robertnesta]

I'm a sleep clencher to 10th power. I wear mouth guards and have only now found one that can handle my bite force. That, and by monitoring my moods throughout the day, I see that every few hours I oscillate between at peace with the world to "everyone is out to get me".
Thank you Alex, I know in my heart that you actually care about us healing Youtubers.

[Maddie]

I had an accident that left me with a dis regulated nervous system and a lot of anxiety. I educated myself about anxieties and how the symptoms manifested so that every time I experienced anxiety I learned not to be scared. It took me some time but I eventually learned to accept the symptoms. Education, meditation and deep slow breathing that’s what helped me. I still on occasions feel light symptoms of anxiety but they are manageable and infrequent.

[ctowtf]

I just realised that my 25 days in the hospital, seeing how my mum was being misdiagnosed, and ignored by all the medical professionals, until she died, was a Trauma to me.
I always thought it was her death that depressed me, but it is more than that. I can not accept the fact that she was being ignored by so many in so many days ! How can i forget this experience? No way ! How can i not change my perception of those medical professionals??

[janetdemania]

The trauma surfaces as anger, being a victim, health issues, feeling of being unsafe to where I am always on guard.

[avoicetocount]

Although I've worked through trauma for many, many years by now, it was only in the last couple years that I really started understanding that my body is actually where the trauma is held and manifested, not so much my mind. Pivotal for this realization was an experience I had during an osteopathic treatment that got me in touch with a specific part of my childhood trauma. The therapist was brave and skilled enough to "tickle" the rage of a fight response out of me while all the while I had been stuck in freeze mode and fawn response. This particular experience has started a lengthy process of finding access to an inner strength that I never tapped into and that allows me to say no and at least consider defending myself. I'm still not really anywhere near a healthy regulated state, and in the past six to eight months I've dealt with lots of very visceral anxiety and "mindfuck" (sorry for the poor choice of language). But I consider that progress, because at least I'm not in freeze mode and I'm processing all those fears and am slowly starting to look into what it means to live instead of just surviving.

Physical manifestations of trauma for me have been: muscle and joint pain since as early as 17 y.o. (possibly autoimmune but evasive in most bloodwork that's been done), inclination towards inflammation, constant muscle tension leading to back and neck pain and frequent headaches, low energy, hormonal imbalances and very painful periods, recurring low moods, sensitivity to gluten, imbalanced gut biome, Hashimoto's disease, bruxism and lots of dental issues connected to that, recurring systemic herpes activations, hypersensitivity and proneness to sensory overload.
That's a long list of symptoms, but no doctor ever seems to understand why any of that would be wearing me out or even incapacitate me to the point of being unable to work.... 🤷‍♀️ because they never look at the full picture.

I've suffered from not knowing who I am and what I want or need for most of my adult life and currently feel a painful sense of failure due to this lack of direction, motivation, and courage in my life. But I'm starting to work my way out of that old state of helplessness, overwhelm and paralyzing fear into something that feels more alive and more like me. I do wish I had more help with this. Good therapist with experience in recovery from childhood trauma are extremely hard to find.

[janiceragdoll]

I needed to understand myself better after dealing with domestic violence and abuse, and actually I can with your explanations. You are doing something very significant for many people. Thank you, honestly, a lot.

[sandimoo]

I have ‘found’ you recently Alex, and I’m so glad that I did! I have fibromyalgia and MS and have suffered for years with my health problems. I went missing as a small child at the seaside and was found 3 hours later with a man. My mums memory of the events was very sketchy, but I never knew what happened to me, although I have been on the edge of memories about it, as it happened at the seaside, and I have felt something in my gut at times near promenade shelters, and steps down to the sea. I have also had other traumas as a child (being grabbed by a man between the legs when I was 9 and almost abducted) and lots of other stressful life events. I had both my knees replaced in March, and since then I shave been having horrendous regret, (what on earth was I thinking!?), a massive flare up of my MS symptoms and very deep depression and distress. I am having hypnotherapy, and have seen a MH nurse, and know I need to do ‘the work’. I know I have trauma trapped in my body, so now I feel motivated to help myself by going gently into releasing that trauma. I need to find a good therapist like you! Thank you……💕

[deborahtapper]

Definitely a mind body connection. Learning to breathe correctly is so important. It calms the mind, but first your mind must learn to tell your body and lungs how to breathe properly.

[ec]

finally getting my head around this after years of suffering. there are people that cause issues like this

[ann-charlottecarlsson]

I've become sick from every virus going around and I've had problems from malfunctioning stomach and intestines: constipation, allergies, sensitive skin, excemas, intolerances to food, sunlight and heat. Also, once in a mobilizing treatment from my naprapath (and good friend, meaning I felt completely safe in his care) he tried a new stretching grip to try and loosen the tight blockage in my lower back and when nothing happened and it was okay for me, he stretched even further... and then I emotionally fell" down into complete darkness, terror and massive anxiety. He thought he'd harmed me but it didn't hurt physically. I couldn't tell what happened, other than it was horrible emotionally and I immediately burst into tears, of course. To this day, some 20 years after, I still don't know why or what the position of my body reminded me of, but my body obviously knows and remembers.

I have several Big T traumas so my qualified guess is the reason to the strong reaction in me was caused by a resemblance to one of the occasions I was sexually abused as a small child. 😥

[ginagina]

Narcassistic personality disorder can result too. They don't show up in therapy i can tell you! But the fall out around them does, me. These utubed have been incredibly enlightening to me. Brilliant.