New research has found a specific change in brain chemistry due to trauma. An article on Medscape.com says:
“Lower serotonin 1B levels were also strongly associated with age at first trauma. The earlier the trauma exposure, the greater the brain alterations and the greater the severity of PTSD symptoms, and the greater the risk of developing comorbidities,” senior author Alexander Neumeister, MD, associate professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, told Medscape Medical News.
“These findings establish that trauma at a young age causes long-lasting neurobiological and psychological effects in survivors with PTSD. In other words, early-life trauma can interfere with normal brain development,” he said.
The article is somewhat technical, but lay readers like us can pretty much follow what is being discussed. To read the story, you need to register for Medscape.com, which is free.
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KatyD, that’s a nasty mind you have old woman! NO!!! He was going to go see his NEWEST GRANDCHILD that is only about a week or so old! LOL ROTFLMAO It is NOT the same! 🙂
Skylar
You were only a few months ahead of me then.
It is sick.
Athena
Oh Oxy, was SO confused with terminology. Will erase. Please don’t tell on me.
Athena,
when did you first know run from your spath?
How did you figure out that he was spath?
Skylar
It’s amazing isn’t it. You can be fooled much of the time. Even once the masked slipped, I didn’t realize the extent of my spaths lies. It wasn’t until I found LF that I truly uncovered the TRUTH, that my spath husband was a LIE from the BEGINNING, and it was ALL lies, ALL a manipulation for some kind of gain. ALL the good times had a hidden agenda. ALL the sweet moments were not shared at all, but that I felt love and he was thinking how he could use the moment to his advantage.
The COMPLETENESS of his life of lies was stunning to me. NOTHING was authentic. Once I understood that basic truth, then the mask was fully off and I could see his manipulations, his deceptions, his evil.
Stunning when you get to that level of understanding them, isn’t it.
Yeah Katy,
I felt like Rip Van Winkle – asleep for 25 years, dreaming of a life that never actually happened. None of it really happened except in my head.
Skylar
I learned in my first week or two of meeting him that he was a liar. He lied to me about some things so blatantly I just couldn’t believe it. It didn’t register. I was thinking, WTF? This can’t be lies. This has to be something else.
I started researching him very intently to understand how much was a lie and how much was the truth. I watched his behavior online, at work, at home, everywhere, and then I observed what he said to me about it.
I did so many google searches, but the lack of a consistent language around this PD stymied me. I found antisocial personality disorder on wikipdeia, it didn’t seem like narcissism (sp) fit, I thought sociopath and psychopath were people who were serial killers, *AND* my spath also has another PDs including schizoid and paranoid, so, all my google searches lead me in a vicious circle of confusion.
xyz
Give yourself time and permission to heal. You can do it. And eventually, if you want, you’ll be able to attract a healthy, satisfying relationship.
Athena,
thanks for bringing us up to date on your story. I didn’t know these details. He sounds like Eddie Haskell with all the brown nosing he does at you. His game is to control your emotions, play with them and destroy you because you are more than he can ever hope to be.