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Modern life can be stressful at the best of times, with pressures on us from all angles as we hold down jobs, keep up with household chores and for some, run around after children. Communicating your feelings clearly also helps overcome any ambiguities or niggling uncertainties. “We, as human beings, are all meaning makers. We look for meaning in our day to day transactions and often make assumptions about how people feel or what they think of us. Perhaps our family wasn’t great at communicating properly when we were growing up so we find it really hard to express how we feel,’ Dr Arroll says.Ben Cohen's ex-wife Abby gives an insight into 'much needed holiday' with her twin daughters and new partner Dave after all clear from bowel cancer Matthew Perry's former fiancée Molly Hurwitz says Friends star 'would love that the world is talking about how talented he was' following his death at 54 The body and brain have a set of specific responses to traumatic experiences. These reactions are the body’s way of protecting us and preparing us to confront a threat. Experts often refer to these reactions as the “fight or flight” response or the “fight, flight, or freeze” response. However, trauma responses in adults and teens can have additional components as well, referred to as fright, flag, and faint. Here’s how each trauma response affects the body and brain:

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But relational trauma doesn’t necessarily involve abusive or neglectful parenting. “It can be just a few moments in which a child hears a criticism, or feels disappointed or unheard, and internalizes the idea that they can’t rely on their parents,” says Dr. Nosal. “It doesn’t really matter whether that experience of disconnection was objectively significant or not. What matters is how it was internalized by the child.”