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How Trauma Can Create New Physical Sensitivities

I get violently car sick now as an adult even on short trips and it started after my accident two years ago but my doctor says there's nothing physically wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A traumatic experience has sensitized the nervous system to previously tolerable sensory input.

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“Where Are You with Stress and the nervous system?”

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