Insensitive SPG
"The pain you feel following trauma is real. It’s not ‘just in your head’. Initially, you may feel numb, as though caught in an alternative reality. This is our amazing bodies way of protecting us from our new reality. To face what has changed is all too much to cope with all at once. As the traumatic experience begins to be acknowledged on a conscious level our mind can finds it almost impossible to focus on anything but that which we experienced to cause our life to change so drastically. The consistent and ongoing increased release of stress hormones can take a toll on the body. This long-term ongoing stress can increase the risk of hypertension, heart attack or stroke, depression, anxiet