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jimmy m
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30 Nov 2018, 10:27 am

You may have even been preverbal the first time it scared you and your mind could not even translate the experience into words. After that the experience was hardwired into you brain and future encounters relived the experience as a flashback and pulled you into a panic attack. Most of the brain growth occurs prior to the age of 3.


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30 Nov 2018, 10:52 am

jimmy m wrote:
You may have even been preverbal the first time it scared you and your mind could not even translate the experience into words. After that the experience was hardwired into you brain and future encounters relived the experience as a flashback and pulled you into a panic attack. Most of the brain growth occurs prior to the age of 3.

This is very astute. Good observation.

I was an early talker (full words by age 1), but I couldn't properly talk about my fear until age 4. Because of my alexithymia and my family's lack of understanding (and later, shaming). I just used the chandelier as a bad/scary character in the rambling stories I made up.