The Nervous System & Stress
This cranial nerve regulates digestion, slows heart rate, and acts as a mind-body bridge.
Goleman says trauma memories get “frozen” in this part of the brain.
Amygdala
Emotional relearning teaches this part of the brain new, calm reactions.
Amygdala
Women often feel closeness through talking. Men often feel closeness through this
Shared presence
Negative automatic thoughts that reinforce themselves are called these
Toxic thoughts
When inhaling, this part of the nervous system temporarily dominates, causing heart rate to rise slightly.
The sympathetic system
This type of trauma involves early-life trauma plus adulthood trauma exposure.
CPTSD
True or false: Old fear memories can be overwritten in the brain
False
This dangerous communication style attacks the person, not the behavior
Criticism
What is flooding? (related to the heart)
A heart rate rising about 10 bpm above normal.
Name the measure that reflects how flexibly the vagus nerve adjusts to environmental demands
Heart rate variability
Explain what happens when the emotional brain treats memories as present reality
Trauma reactions feel like they are happening “right now,” even when danger is gone.
This part of the brain helps calm the emotional brain when we name our feelings
The Cortex
What is stonewalling?
When someone shuts down emotionally during conflict.
What is non-defensive communication?
Using “I statements,” calm tone, and listening to emotions instead of reacting is called this.
When you exhale longer than you inhale, you activate this calming system
The Parasympathetic system
Goleman calls PTSD a disorder of this brain system
The limbic system
Name two ways to help PTSD
Emotional relearning and Therapy
When boys and girls play, what do each of them emphasize?
Girls: Cooperation and minimize hostility
Boys: Competition
Flooding makes people misread neutral signals as what?
Danger or Negative
After stress, this process helps your body return to normal
Vagal rebound
How many stress disorders are recognized? Name them and describe them
PTSD, CTSD, CPTSD
Goleman says therapy works because it acts like "---" for the emotional brain
Reparenting
THE ISSUE IS NOT THE PROBLEM :
IT IS HOW WE "---"
THAT MAKES OR BREAKS THE
RELATIONSHIP
Communicate
Flooding pushes the body into which nervous system mode? Name it and Define it.
Fight-Or-Flight