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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Katy,
The statistics are that on any given Friday or Saturday night 10% of the drivers on the road in my state are LEGALLY DRUNK. DUH??? Trust? Nah, I don’t trust others not to drink and drive, or text and drive (how STUPID is that!) and the law is supposed to be obeyed, but people frequently violate it. How many people violate the posted speed laws? I admit I used to violate them pretty regularly, but I no longer do so.
I do my best to honor both law and GOOD SENSE. I expect others to, but they don’t always do so, so I am not gob-smacked when I find someone else violating the laws or good sense, but at the same time….I watch for others violating the laws and good sense and I try not to let them close enough to me to do me a great deal of damage. Avoiding people you KNOW are violating either good sense or the law is a good idea and a good precaution.
Oxy
I’m with ya regarding driving statistics. I used to tell my daughter to remember that half the drivers on the road have less than avg intelligence so she was to watch out for bad drivers and half were on their cell phones and she could not tell which were which! I practice defensive driving.
But I am trying to square the trust issue. It’s one area that my husband dragged me into that black abyss and I have not come back to a place of peace.
From what I understand, society trusts each other and thus they all have a good time. After my husband, the last thing I do is trust. I just can’t seem to get there and don’t understand how other people do. Or maybe what I “TRUST” is while people do not purposely do harm, they also will not Avoid to do harm (unless they expect to receive a benefit) b/c they could care less about the consequences of their behavior towards others.
Katy, I think some people are to be trusted SOME and some people are to NOT be trusted 100%…if you envision the bell curve and then picture that most people are in the “middle’ and will do what they say MOST OF THE TIME, then there are those on each end…some who are 100% reliable and some who are 0% reliable. The problem is telling one from the other!
Oxy
I think my problem is how I draw my bell shaped trust curve: one end is people to be trusted, the middle is people to not be trusted 0% reliable, and the far end are people who are negatively reliable. Positive, zero, and negative. And like you say, difficult to ascertain which is which!
Katy,
I’m not sure I follow your questions. You mentioned contract law and the laws which keep people safely on the road. That means you have trust in the legal system to keep people in line. I don’t. Spaths have that covered too.
If you’re asking me how to trust, I can’t help there. I trust nobody.
As Athena said, most people are trustworthy and they trust, as I used to do. But I can’t anymore. I see things too clearly.
Our monetary system is a good example. The federal reserve notes are not money, they are notes to be redeemed… for … um… what? We use them as money and we TRUST that their value will hold and that they are valuable. But they are not backed by a gold standard anymore, so… what are they to be redeemed for? Still, people trust that they are worth the numbers written on them.
Most people don’t even THINK about their currency, they just use it and TRUST implicitly that it is worth what it says. If people didn’t trust in the currency, then they wouldn’t get up and go to work in the morning. So far so good, but if it turns out to be a ponzi scheme that ran out a long time ago, then all we have left is the trust that more chumps will continue to pay into the system before we check out.
Skylar,
I’ve spent most of today watching David Icke. It was called “The Lion Sleeps No More” very interesting and has your BF heard of him?
Ana,
I’ll ask him. I’m sure that he has, though. 😀
Hey just because I brought up currency doesn’t mean I’m a conspiracy theorist. I became that when I found out about psychopaths! LOL. Currency is just the cherry on top.
Skylar,
Cold hard numbers? Numbers I can do. “The Ascent of Money”, good book and now on dvd. Currency is not backed by gold. We went off the gold standard. Currency is a means of exchange.
I thought you had a way to feel trust again, a way to relate to people and form connections which is what I don’t have and really want to have…. some kind of perspective that empowers trust in people and society and the world. And I didn’t have that. I was trying to follow your lead. Seems to me our spaths have the same pattern of expressing motivation and their targets have drawn similar conclusions.
Katy,
yep I got slimed by my spath. He hated how innocent and trusting I was so that’s what he targeted.
I’m still functioning in my dysfunction, (to paraphrase oxy).
Red flags are my “gold standard”. I work on my perceptions and intuition every single day. I don’t think I will ever trust others again the way I used to, but I’m learning to trust myself to keep me safe.
Sometimes, it’s fun to throw caution to the wind, as long as you aren’t risking anything you can’t afford to lose. It reminds me of how I used to be.
Katy, maybe we were too trusting. Maybe “real” adults don’t trust the way we did. I don’t know. Remember, I was raised by spaths and then lived 25 years with a spath. I haven’t had much experience in the real world. Just the spath world. It’s very sad.
skylar
yes, i too raised by what i’ve realized were spaths, then i lived in a closed world where we had a mission, then i married into an spath family with covert and overt spaths. my husband was covert until the end when he unmasked and became overt.
the only one i trust is ME, and even she can be suspect at times. 🙂