After the danger has passed, your brain and body are supposed to return to normal. With PTSD, however, that doesn't happen. You stay in fight-flight-or-freeze mode, even though you no longer face a life-threatening danger.
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Gender Wage Gap and Depression/Anxiety
The use of psychiatric terminology (“major depressive disorder” and “generalized anxiety disorder”) constitutes something of a barrier to communication here, but the general message is clear: people (in this case women) who …
When Lipstick Is My Lifeline: Coping With Mental Illness | The Leaky …
Talking about different ways of coping with mental illness and what helps people deal with how they feel.