Dr. Michael Scheeringa
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first heard Jul 2026
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Mental disorders don't happen that way.
99, probably.
I mean, everybody I've worked with clinically and where I used to work, they believe the body keeps the score, or at least they think it's possible.
It does not work that way.
Well, let's back up and say, what is in body keeps the score?
He's saying things like parts of your brain have shrunk, like the hippocampus or the amygdala, or they've been rewired so that they're less active or more active, like neurons have actually physically rewired.
Due to trauma.
Due to trauma.
Well, that's another can of worms.
It's broader than the way psychiatry defines it.
In the definition of post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma is life threat.
And that's not a gray thing.
That's pretty black and white.
And people have tried to expand that concept to things like stress.
my parents got divorced, other things that are not life threat.
And that's kind of an ideological reason behind all that.
It's important to keep that distinction because they're trying to expand the concept of trauma for other purposes that have to do with their view of human nature and ideology.
The idea of brain centers being shrunk or rewired, their data they cite comes from cross-sectional studies where you look at a person one point in time, which is always after trauma.
So you can find that people with PTSD or trauma have differences in their brain compared to people who don't have PTSD, but you do not know from a cross-sectional study which came first.
It may be that people had these differences and that's what made them vulnerable to develop PTSD.
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