Dr. Victor Carrión: How to Heal From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

1315.846 - 1343.839 Dr. Victor Carrión

And so what happens? So this autonomic system gets activated. We have our fight-or-flight reaction. But what happens to a young kid? Because they're very little and they cannot fight. They're also very dependent and they cannot flight. So they're stuck. They're stuck there. So they freeze. They freeze and that's dissociation. It's actually during development a healthy defense mechanism.