Dr. Aimie Apigian
speaker
1,012 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 27 May
Dr. Aimie Apigian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.
Appearances
I'm going to use the word powerlessness.
It's specifically being powerless or feeling powerless in the face of an inescapable life threat.
Something that feels like, I don't know if I'm going to be okay.
if this happens.
And there's nothing I can do about it though.
When that specific scenario happens, that's what shifts our physiology into these other survival strategies.
No longer is the survival strategy to fight or to flee, right?
We hear fight or flee a lot.
That's the sympathetic stress response, but that's not going to work once you realize that there's nothing you can do.
You can't run away.
You can't fight this.
This is way too big for you.
So powerlessness is then that moment when it triggers a trauma response.
Yes.
As long as we think that we can do something.
then what's happening in our physiology is that adrenaline is driving our cells, our mitochondria specifically, to make more energy.
And then it's changing everything else in our body to be able to use up that energy in order to do something, in order to respond, in order to overcome this danger.
So you go from a very high energy state to
to this trauma response.
And what happens with that moment of powerlessness is that our whole cellular system shifts into this different state and it's mediated by communication down the vagus nerve that says, it's better for us to just stop, to shut down.
Showing 221–240 of 1,012 · page 12 of 51
← Previous
Next →