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    Apr 19, 2024, 3:35 PM

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    If you experienced something traumatic and find yourself asking, "Is my brain broken?" Good news! It's not. Lux Alptraum and Erika Moen team up to explain the basics of trauma, from what it's doing in your brain to how to heal from it.
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    "It's so ridiculous, I don't know why I'm not over it." The person thinks frantically while jagged lightning bolts radiate out from them. "It happened so long ago. Why is it still hitting me so hard?! I shouldn't care about this any more!" Lux Alptraum approaches the person, taking their hands to help them stand up. Lux is a cis woman with glasses, long black hair, pierced ears, and wears an off-the-shoulder tight dress, tights, and fashionable short boots. "Oh, buddy..." Lux says as she pulls the person to their feet. "I know how that feels. I think it's time we talked about... TRAUMA!" "'Trauma' is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days." Lux continues as she walks by floating oversized faces saying things like "Sounds like a TRAUMA reaction. That TRIGGERED my TRAUMA! Ugh, I was so TRAUMATIZED by that." "But what exactly IS trauma?" She concludes.
    "Isn't it when you have PTSD from something really big?" The person asks, while looking over their shoulder a poster for a war movie. "You kowm like those movies where war veterans keep having flashbacks." "Well, yes and no." Replies Lux. Narration: At the most basic level, trauma is any injury that overwhelms the body's natural coping and healing mechanisms. Image: The silhouette of a generic figure getting zapped by lightning bolts on the outside, with their inside filled up with smaller jagged lightning bolts as well. The person gives Lux a boost to climb up giant 3 as she continues, "Experts like to break emotional trauma down into three types." Infographic: 3 Types of Trauma Acute: Trauma develops suddenly in response to a single, extreme event. (Icon of a lightning bolt) Chronic: Someone is traumatized by a long-term experience like an abusive relationship. (Icon of three jagged arrows pointing at each other, to create a circle) Complex: Trauma is the result of multiple adverse experiences (Icon of three lightning bolts) Narration: Trauma is also super, super personal. Read the full transcript at: https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/trauma-lux-alptraum-and-erika-moen/
    Narration: Every one of these reactions is normal, and specific to the individual. Trauma tends to amp up our regular behaviors to extreme levels - and that can appear in different forms. A thermometer rests on its side, with its interior liquid turning a deeper red until it bursts from the top explosively. The far, cool end is labeled "Normal" while the exploded end is labeled "Extreme". In between these two ends are the labels, "Mania, overconfidence, depression, flashbacks, anxiety, fawning (trying to please everyone around you), angry outbursts, disassociation, detachment", with a note clarifying, "Just SOME examples - not a comprehensive list!" Lux now sits on top of a giant brain that has a couple bandaids on it. She is helping pull the person up as they also climb up the brain. The person asks while climbing, "Okay, so maybe I was traumatized. But why do I still feel so bad? It's been years - isn't it supposed to heal??" "If only it were that simple!" Commiserates Lux. "One of the reasons why trauma feels so stick and hard to move past is because it literally changes your brain. It took me a very long time to learn to cope with my own traumas, and even now I still struggle with them sometimes." Read the full transcript at: https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/trauma-lux-alptraum-and-erika-moen/
    "There are three main ways that the brain changes after trauma:" Continues Lux in profile, showing an X-ray of her brain and designating the pre-frontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus. Narration: The pre-frontal cortex goes a little wonky, making it harder to process information and accurately assess what's going on. The amgydala - the brain's alarm center grows, turning into a hypersensitive danger alarm. The hippocampus shrinks, making it harder to remember things." "Okay." Says the person, leaning on a giant brain that has its siren activated while it stares through binoculars at "The Past". "So my brain's been trained to expect constant danger?" "Yup!" Shrugs Lux sadly. "And even though it might have been years ago, your brain still thinks you're in that danger zone now." Narration: It's really easy for that hypersensitive alarm to go off. Image: The Brain is scared by a black triangle symbol that represents something bad. They experience lightning bolts of shock and upset. Narration: Sometimes it's kicked into gear by obvious stuff, like descriptions of events and abuse. Image: The brain mentally makes the connection that black triangles = lightning bolts/bad stuff. Narration: But really random things can also remind you of that scary tie. Image: The brain's alarm is triggered when it sees a light blue *blue* triangle amble by, happily whistling a little tune and not interacting with the brain at all.
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