Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Immobilization is at the root of most traumas. When that occurs the DVC is likely to take over: Your heart slows down, your breathing becomes shallow, and, zombielike, you lose touch with yourself and your surroundings. You dissociate, faint and collapse.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Traumas
• Immobilization

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• Immobilization is at the root of most traumas. When that occurs the DVC is likely to take over: Your heart slows down, your breathing becomes shallow, and, zombielike, you lose touch with yourself and your surroundings. You dissociate, faint and collapse.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Breathing
  • Collapse
  • Traumas