It is some serious shyte.

Imagine you can't close your hand - everything gets in it - you have no barriers, buffers or filters. This is why Marsha Linheham said it's like dealing with patients with 3rd degree burns all over their body - because without the ability to close - YOU FEEL EVERYTHING to the nth degree - and have no way of deciphering what it is, so you go into isolation (self protection), anger (why is this happening to me) neediness (somebody help me) self-medication (everything is hurting) etc.etc.

This is the end result of trauma, my friends. One act so intense, so profound that it shook our foundations to the core, moving the amygdala into a frozen state of *open*.

This is the reason why - we have thin skin, no boundaries, and splitting the methodology of the BRAIN of figuring things out. Other parts of the brain need to step in and overcompensate when this contraction of the amygdala occurs.