5 Signs Your Body is Still Holding on to Unresolved Trauma

Trauma doesn't always look like flashbacks. More often, it looks like everyday life — until you start paying attention.

1. You startle easily

An exaggerated startle response- jumping at a loud noise, tensing when someone enters a room unexpectedly, is a nervous system on high alert. It's not a personality quirk. It's a sign your body hasn't gotten the message that the threat is gone.

2. You go numb when things get intense

Emotionally shutting down under stress is the other side of hyperarousal. If you regularly disconnect during conflict, check out during difficult conversations, or feel oddly flat when something important is happening, your nervous system may be protecting you the only way it knows how.

3. Certain situations trigger a disproportionate response

Rage at a tone of voice. Panic in a specific type of room. Dread on a particular date. When the reaction doesn't match the situation, the situation is usually a trigger, not the actual problem.

4. Sleep is difficult

The brain processes emotional experiences during sleep. When trauma is unresolved, that process is disrupted, leading to difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or vivid, disturbing dreams.

5. You're exhausted for no clear reason

Sustained vigilance is metabolically taxing. If your nervous system is running threat-detection in the background at all times, the fatigue is real, even if nothing "happened" today. These signs are common. They're also treatable.

Unresolved trauma doesn't have to remain unresolved. Accelerated Resolution Therapy is effective to reprocess trauma and free you from these symptoms in just a few sessions.

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