Rachel Yehuda: The Biology of What We Carry

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  I think for most people, you know, when we think of trauma,

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  we think of like a bad memory, like a flashback, a nightmare, a story, et cetera.

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  And I think one of the more revolutionary ideas that you were part of putting forward was trauma is less of a psychology and more of a biology.

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  And a lot of people, you know, butted up against us, they went,

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  no, this is all happening only in your brain and it's a thought.

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  And you found that there was something that was actually happening in the body.

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  So, you know, when you talk about trauma as biology,

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  not just psychology, What does that mean for the person who's living with it?

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  How does that present?

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  Well For the person that's living with it That it's very hard to separate out psychology and biology and I don't think that I've been able to separate it out in my mind One of the earliest debates in the field of psychology what launched the field of psychology was really the question of do we feel fear and then our bodies have a fear response or do our bodies have a fear response and we interpret that response and say,

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  oh, I must be afraid.

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  And to this day, one could argue with both ways.

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  That was a very famous debate.

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  What we have found doing neuroscience studies with people that have PTSD is that you can see traces of their Response in their body.

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  This is What Now with Trevor Noah.

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  Dr.

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  Rachel Yehuda, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast.

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  This is one of those topics that I feel like everybody's interested in and everybody feels

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  like they understand because of how colloquial the word trauma has become.

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  But as I was reading through just the research reviews that I could understand,

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