Abusive thinking doesn’t appear out of nowhere.
When the nervous system is stuck in trauma, it plays scary fantasies 24/7, stories of threat, humiliation, or control. That constant fear is what drives all four adaptive trauma patterns: fight, (unhealthy aggression) flight (avoidance), freeze (rumination), and fawn (people pleasing). Each one is the body’s way of surviving an endless alarm. If those fantasies […]