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When Trauma Is a 'Gateway Drug' to Addiction
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Trauma is a wild and wicked thing — impossible to control and yet it lives in our heads rent free, often devaluing us as individuals and our contributions to others’ lives.
While some may say trauma is “just in your head,” it really does live in a person’s head and it’s a very real problem. The brain is massively affected by different kinds of trauma, some of which can cause long-term damage to critical functioning areas.
In a 2006 study done on traumatic stress, Dr. J. Douglas Bremner of Atlanta’s Emory University School of Medicine found that individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD have higher levels of anxiety and heightened emotions, cortisol and norepinephrine levels, and quite literally short-circuit many important
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