PTSD and Trauma

Conversation Starters

Has your body ever reacted to something — your heart racing, your chest tightening, your whole system going on alert — and the logical part of you knows there's no danger, but the rest of you didn't get the memo?

Do you ever feel like you're standing in a room full of people who are all living in one world, and you're living in a completely different one — and you can't explain why?

What if the thing you've been calling weakness — the shutting down, the numbness, the not being able to just "get over it" — was never weakness at all, but your mind and body doing exactly what they had to do to survive something that was too much for any person to carry?