every damn day
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The question is not if we avoid, but how much.
I avoided the most when my fight or flight mechanism was firing 10 plus times a day.
My agoraphobia lasted six months, it left me scarred, afraid, and lost.
Meditation and exposure therapy helped me past agoraphobia.
It was a great victory however it was painful and I suffered.
Childhood abuse (Complex PTSD) wires the brain differently, mine searched for danger, then fired my fight or flight mechanism for protection.
Remember that shuts down some of the executive branch, our prefrontal cortex.
Triggered, we sense a near-lethal threat, the prefrontal cortex is confused and partially offline.
Our whole being shifts to surviving, we are scared to death.
Thinking is confused as cortisol and adrenaline flood our system.
Forget trying to explain this to others, you have to experience an out-of-control nervous system, the severity, and FEAR produced.
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