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Welcome to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast, “grief and trauma”

Overlapping grief and trauma and my new post-trigeminal neuralgia existence are causing anxiety and fear.

My brain chemistry, the amygdala, stress, fight-or-flight part of my brain is throttling my hippocampus, which is the intelligent part of my brain. The fear and anxiety part of my brain is getting the upper hand because of all of these traumas that are happening right now. I’m recording this episode to try and get it out there to say it all and to hopefully move beyond some of this fear, trauma, and anxiety.

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