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Thank you

I love your compassion and that of all the people who contributed to your survey. This was really helpful.

Is yoga nidra beneficial for this?

Really interesing. Glad I landed here. Thanks Justin. You're website's awsome.

I cry quite a bit. In childhood (during family trauma I was not consciously aware of) I would cry most exclusively when something was funny. I had an kind uncle who would visit and he would whisper in my ear, super-cala-fregulisitic-expe alidocious. I would start laughing and laughing so much I would cry, alot. Family would laugh with me. I was sensitive to funny things, though funny things weren't exactly happening in my family. Fast-forward to adulthood and I cry if I hear a baby cry. ( As a nurse I could never take care of children in my 39 years of nursing career. I think I had only two child patients, one a burned toddler and a school age child with major bone fractured). I cry at moments of human sensitivity. I hear of people who are highly sensitive people, like being in a category of people who are more sensitive to their environment. I think I am such. I wonder how crying in these circumstances compare to your discussion. Is my crying in a supermarket when I hear a crying baby have anything to do with freeze flight?

"crying is an action, not a state." I like that. (p.s. I will reach out about joining your next group.)

I have experienced this!!!! Thank you for explaining this it was the worst experience of my life

Is it normal to just stop feeling? I don't remember the last time I felt, really anything. I just go through the motions. . I'm just beginning to really try to comprehend this stuff. I've been stuck like this for years and I'm struggling really, really bad.

Hi. Is it possible to switch between shutdown and freeze? It feels like this is exactly what I am experiencing. I am fully immobilized in a shutdown yet when I need to get things done I am capable to do these but in a freeze/ machinery state

If I could find a safety state I would use it. Already spend an insane amount of time in bed or falling asleep in a recliner watch ing tv trying to visualize pray meditate etc…

I am shut down cut off and probably broken. Although being broken come with embarrassment but it is natural for everyone to have a breaking point. I don’t know what to do . 61 totally isolated cut off from family, no one to call and although there are a couple of really sweet younger friends at work like mid twenties young I wouldn’t call them out of the blue if I had to really talk to someone. I wonder how long a human can go on like this ? I am just doing my time at this point, don’t know if anyone can relate to that last statement or any of air actually. Thanks for listening 😊

I started therapy, which kicked my feelings back into gear talking about my trauma. Then I was anxious. Biggest improvement uve ever had…taking NAC supplement! Such a big help. I cannot take antidepressants. Bad side effects. Taking 1,000-2,000mg N Acetyl Cysteine for a month has helped so much. I don’t feel depressed or thinking too much. It decreased it a lot. Still working on it. But I’m not feeling the suffering feeling anymore. Just took the edge off. I still have to do the work to balance things.

oh bloody hell, that is so me, not from sexual abuse, its from childhood stuff. Looking for how to move through it.

Anyone know if this is what the understimulated adhd is? I was diagnosed with adhd since I was 7 when they noticed I acted like a zombie and wouldn’t speak or focus.

Thank you Justin! Your unpacking of Polyvagal theory has been empowering and transformative. I’ve been in shutdown for several years. You make this accessible and easy to assimilate. I’m enjoying your book Stuck Not Broken 1, and looking forward to 2 & 3. Recently, I went to your website and discovered the free lessons on Polyvagal Theory. I love the clarity and orderly layout of concepts and supported studies that guide us through layered learning. You make an otherwise difficult and complex theory into easy to digest and apply. Thank God I found you. I’m finally seeing the way out of this cave.❤

Ok wait what is the tense stiffening then? The step before complete shutdown like this?

ive been in complete dorsal vagal shutdown for more than19 month😭i just cant get out of it ive been stuck so bad tried many anti depressants but nothing has worked so far..i would give my everything to get heal and feel connected again.ive been experiencing severe dissociation ,disconnection from my body,from my surrounding and my emotions😢😢😢

Very helpful Justin. I had your video passed on to me by my counsellor. I was doing some amends and realized my clinical depression of 2016 had not been fully processed, and I still had fear over this event. So with you putting it into evolutionary terms I found this quite helpful. I was interested in your ‘coming out’ suggestions too. For me, aside from a safe environment, rest, diet, and natural light, I found full body scan meditations provided me with relief. Thanks again, great video and presentation.

I was diagnosed with adhd and when I take medication for it I am able to be more aware of my body, when I don’t take it I can’t concentrate for long enough on my body to make much progress and it’s usually very frustrating. I feel way too zoned out and like my brain can barely work for long enough to even feel what’s going on. But the medication makes me feel calmer more connected and I can concentrate on how my body feels. But weirdly it can also make it harder to sleep. I already struggle with insomnia whenever I try to work on this stuff. I’m not sure what this is all about and most doctors have no clue.

I was diagnosed with adhd and when I take medication for it I am able to be more aware of my body, when I don’t take it I can’t concentrate for long enough on my body to make much progress and it’s usually very frustrating. I feel way too zoned out and like my brain can barely work for long enough to even feel what’s going on. But the medication makes me feel calmer more connected and I can concentrate on how my body feels. I’m not sure what this is all about and most doctors have no clue.

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_hi bruh 🫂, they got me pretty damn screwed around here..and renown doctors and their therapists don't seem to be interested in giving me any good medicine for my traumas, stress, anxiety, depression, nervousness etc...more than 4 years i have told them about the hell im going through but its like im talking to hateful clowns, thank you very much for your videos justin! 🤜🏼🤛🏼_

Run......and keep running.......and never ever come back 🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃

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I just heard an other Video of the dorsal state. Its saying its also possible to go directly to safety again.

Please fucking explain this to everyone who works with trauma justin. Almost angry now that so many "helpers" unintentionally "gaslit" me about this dorsal vagal state i was in. Hey, im going back up into fight or flight! Nice! Lol 😂

I'm confused because I feel like I'm shut down most of the time but at the same time I have my brain saying you can't cope with this so just stay calm and don't let anything get to you

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Dissociating and being alone. Shut down. I am learning to find my anger in a safe space with my psychiatrist and EMDR. It's scary to feel a feeling you have not been allowed to feel all your life but I practice using the anger in a healthy way. To recognize when my boundaries have been overstepped and I need to do something about it or when I want to change something

Jesus Christ thank you Justin. Im in these freezes constantly and the clarifications you just gave are massively empowering... and not in a stupid corny "therapy" way. In the realest way

There's no statistics - Jesus just told them

Get rid of my posts asap

All our mamas in fawn If u alive your mama in fawn

I'm educating the whole world - sorry Jesus educated the whole world in his hands Love Ya 😘 Jesus Rules the Role

You need to add the 5th F FU Stockholm syndrome I lived as octopus my whole childhood - once in a while 💕 in the fawns - for teachers. See octopus movie to understand how us octopus pusses role lol lol lol

You don't state how to move out of shutdown here. Just accepting/giving into it seems like a good way of staying in it?

I beg of you - don't try to do it on your own, find the best chiropractor in the area and start there. It's great he's giving tools, living mindfully and so on - but to do it with someone who has knowledge and experience (and their own tools) can help you shift immensly much quicker. I tried to put myself out of suicidal ideation for months (adhd, depression, tinnitus) and once I started working with another person the clouds started to lift. I recommend the same way.

Your video was very helpful. And it makes alot of sense. I just started therapy a month ago. I am work in progress. Also, GO DETROIT LIONS. lol

This was very helpful, thank you.

Finally the doctors are understanding how men create Stockholm syndrome in their wife and children. Thankyou Jesus

“Allow the shutdown mindfully“ That’s what I really need to do.

Fawning and appeasing are behaviours , not states, the dont really have their unique siganture/ pattern of ans. It is and will be a challenge to differentiate between mixed states and behaviours. In the end its just a question of definition.

Thank you for all your videos, Justin. This type of video, that is a clip, where the context is missing are not as helpful.

except your videos are not labelled by number so it is hard to find which ones are you referring to with 101 to 109.

these videos are very helpful thank you

I had it 2 summers ago and my daughter will never forgive me for not being around. She will never accept this as an excuse.I feel I had it for sure. U wish she look it up😢

Wow now i know what im going through.😢

The commenter seems like someone who is lucky enough not to be in freeze squad, but possibly always angry and unpleasant because of it lol.

That’s me right now listening to this. Hopefully I can change