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"So, for example, if you're at home watching a scary movie at night, the hippocampus can tell the prefrontal cortex that you're at home, this is just a movie, that's no reason to go into a full fight or flight response or freak out," Herringa says.
"These kids seem to be afraid everywhere," he says. "It's like they've lost the ability to put a contextual limit on when they're going to be afraid and when they're not."
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This makes sense as to why I can't watch scary movies anymore. They trigger me and I'm left genuinely terrified that the movie was real.
I'm also extremely tense most of the time because even if I'm in a room by myself, I'm still scared, and I can't turn it off.
I do have psychotic symptoms related to/ triggered by traumatic experiences, but for me I had psychotic symptoms before trauma ever happened (if I remember correctly, anyway)