𝟐. 🧠 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦
Trauma reorganizes three major brain regions:
❗ The Amygdala
Becomes hyperactivated.
You begin living in constant internal “alarm mode,” even when nothing dangerous is happening.
❗ The Hippocampus
Stops integrating memories properly.
Trauma becomes fragmented: sensations, images, tension, impulses.
❗ The Prefrontal Cortex
Loses regulatory power.
Logical thinking and emotional regulation weaken.
You can know you are safe and still feel unsafe.
This is why trauma is not psychological weakness —
it is brain circuitry shaped by survival.
𝟑. 🧬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 (𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞) 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦
Trauma affects hormones on a profound level:
⚠️ Cortisol Dysregulation
The stress hormone cortisol becomes either:
• chronically elevated (hyperstress), or
• chronically depleted (adrenal fatigue, burnout).
This disrupts:
• blood sugar regulation
• thyroid conversion (T4 → T3)
• sex hormone balance
• inflammation patterns
• sleep-wake rhythm
• mitochondrial ATP production
Over time, the body becomes metabolically exhausted.
⚠️ Thyroid Suppression
When the body feels unsafe, metabolism slows to conserve energy:
↓ T3
↓ TSH sensitivity
↓ mitochondrial output
Trauma often masquerades as “thyroid disease.”
⚠️ Sex Hormone Imbalance
The body deprioritizes reproduction during threat:
• low progesterone
• estrogen dominance
• cycle irregularities
• infertility
• low libido
Because survival always comes before creation.
