Functional freeze is when someone goes into autopilot as a response to chronic stress and trauma. Unlike other trauma responses, someone in functional freeze can appear completely normal to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may not realize that many of your reactions are a trauma response. If you’ve ever been told you’re “too emotional,” “too ...

Growing up in toxic households can inevitably shape how a person behaves and responds to adult relationships. Jeff explains ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So, you've started to notice some patterns in your life, and you're wondering why you react the way you do. Emotional habits can ...

Most people think of people-pleasing as a harmless habit, but fawning is something entirely different — a trauma response so overlooked and misunderstood that most people don’t even realize they’re ...

Most people know the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism related to threatening situations and events. In recent years, in no small part due to high-profile legal cases involving sexual ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As we wait for the impeachment trial to start, people are speaking out about their fears and the idea that something like the riots could happen again. Debra Mollen, a ...

A new study has found that even if survivors’ physical and psychological scars have healed after experiencing trauma, their bodies can still carry a biological “imprint” of the event years into the ...

Adverse childhood experiences and traumatic events experienced or witnessed at any point during one's lifetime can sometimes ...