J’s Reviews > The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook > Status Update
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PTSD is not signaled by a constellation of new symptoms that develop long after a stressful event but it is in many regards the maladaptive persistence of the once adaptive responses that began as coping mechanisms in response to the event itself.
— Jan 19, 2025 04:47PM
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“Research has repeatedly found that surrounding a child with other troubled peers only tends to escalate bad behavior.”
— Jan 19, 2025 06:10PM
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Recovery from trauma requires the victim to return to a situation which is predictable and safe. Our brains are naturally pulled to make sense of trauma in a way that allows us to become tolerant to it. To mentally shift the traumatic experience to one in which we are completely helpless to which we have some mastery.
— Jan 19, 2025 04:00PM
