Mark Baxter

And their belief systems get shifted.

So they start to often take responsibility if there's something that they did wrong.

So there's a deep sense of shame.

There might be a deep disbelief in the character of humans in general.

So there's this deep distrust in others.

there might be a complete hopelessness about the state of the world.

And so it's the belief system shifts that become really difficult as well.

So there's the nervous system stuff and there's the belief system stuff and then there's the kind of the impact on their behaviors and functioning.

So at every level, it's really impactful.

Yeah.

Yeah, so a few things that get in the road there.

One is that often people do carry a sense of guilt or shame and which really sort of impacts their ability to want treatment or to seek it out.

So that can happen.

The other thing is that, you know, the event's over and people after a big event are sometimes, you know, people around them are very helpful and they'll help with food and the practical stuff and they'll help with kind of being emotional support.

And then after a few weeks, people go back to their own lives and the person is kind of just, although they're surrounded by people, they might feel quite isolated.

They might not feel like they can keep bringing it up.

It's almost like it keeps reoccurring in them sometimes.

But they don't want to keep talking about it constantly with everybody else.

They know that that's not kind of helpful as well.

So people can sort of go inwards and shut down and become very kind of ultra independent, but also stuck and desperate and hopeless and not show that to anybody.