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It can sometimes feel wrong to call emotional neglect trauma because it doesn’t look violent or overwhelming. When we think of trauma, we often think of physical violence. Neglect is…

Many people who experienced emotional neglect describe their childhood as “fine.” Some parts of your childhood may have been okay. The absence of overt abuse does not mean emotional needs…

One reason you may not have clear memories of emotional neglect is that you may not realize some of your experiences were neglectful. If those experiences felt normal to you…

If you feel on edge even when nothing is happening, you may be experiencing hypervigilance. Hypervigilance is when the nervous system remains on alert and ready to respond to threats…

When you are triggered, you are responding to reminders of past trauma, not the present situation. If butterflies are a trigger, for example, they will not cease to being a…

If you shut down after a trigger, it’s because, growing up, your nervous system learned that the safest response to triggers was to shut down rather than escaping, fighting back,…

You may not feel safe even when you are because the thinking parts of the brain and the threat-detection parts of the brain do not always agree. The sense that…

Yes, triggers can happen even if you have no conscious memory of the original cause. This is because the nervous system “remembers” threats separately from our conscious memory. You may…

When you react to things that don’t seem related to your past, it may be because you have no conscious memory of the event related to the trigger. The nervous…

What seems like a small or insignificant event to you may be seen by your nervous system as an indication of threat. For example, if a man in a blue…