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Trauma has a way of overwhelming us. When we are threatened, our first response is fight, flight, or freeze. These are physiological or psychological reactions to a traumatic event. As a result, the brain changes to deal with future perceived stressors. Consider victims of domestic abuse who refuse to leave the situation. Cognitively they know it is bad for them, but the mere suggestion of leaving will send them into a fight, flight, or freeze mode because their brains and bodies have become addicted to the abuse. I choose the word “addicted” because they become helpless in the face of their craving for those chemicals—that is, the intense chemical reaction in their brain and body. As a result, their feelings override their thoughts. They want to change, but since their amygdala and hippocampus have no blueprint or intense chemical reaction for what leaving looks like, they stay. Our brain and body like the status quo because their central job is to keep us alive. No matter how horrific our situation might be, their mantra is to stay put; after all, we’ve survived it before so it must be okay.