Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Posttraumatic stress is the result of a fundamental reorganization of the central nervous system based on having experienced an actual threat of annihilation, (or seeing someone else being annihilated), which reorganizes self experience (as helpless) and the interpretation of reality (the entire world is a dangerous place).

Bessel van der Kolk

• Stress
• Interpretation
• Nervous System
• Reorganizing

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• Posttraumatic stress is the result of a fundamental reorganization of the central nervous system based on having experienced an actual threat of annihilation, (or seeing someone else being annihilated), which reorganizes self experience (as helpless) and the interpretation of reality (the entire world is a dangerous place).

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Stress
  • Interpretation
  • Nervous System