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resilience
“When … essential structures are subjected to inescapable shock, the result may be confusion and agitation, or it may be emotional detachment, often accompanied by out-of-body experiences - the feeling your’e watching yourself from far away. In other words, trauma makes people feel like either some body else or like no body. In order to overcome trauma, you need help to get back in touch with your body, with your Self.”
Bessel Van Der Kolk - “The Body Keeps the Score”
An October 2022 study on mice by Princeton Neuroscience Institute said,
“It’s a complicated environment where a mouse has to decide what to do around a bully mouse,”
“What decision it makes has profound consequences in terms of how it ends up.”
“Even more strongly related to resilience was how much dopamine the animals had in their reward system during the time when they were starting to fight back. That’s what was really cool to me — that an animal that is not just fighting back but is rewarded for fighting back is the one that becomes resilient.”
“I’m very interested in the question of whether we can teach resilience,”
“We need to think about ways to help the people who seem to be more susceptible to cope with the stresses of the world,”
“Information about our dynamic interactions with the environment will be useful for tracking our habits that might be helpful or harmful,”
