prioritizing protection over connection
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Concepts that appear alongside prioritizing protection over connection across episodes.
- freeze/collapse response
- emotional numbness
- mild dissociation
- automatic emotional suppression
- relational numbness
- emotion regulation (intentional)
- vulnerability as expensive
- medial prefrontal cortex
- somatic therapy
- body-level re-engagement
- amygdala (brain's alarm system)
- active emotional shutdown
- observer mode (prefrontal cortex)
- nervous system shutdown
- titrated emotional exposure
- dorsal vagal shutdown
- trauma-focused work
- circuit breaker analogy
- protective program/mechanism
- global emotional flattening (depression)