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How Trauma Avoidance Gradually Shrinks Your World

I have not been able to drive on the highway for six months since the accident and my whole life is getting smaller and smaller

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Protective avoidance patterns, once necessary for survival, now imprison the person in an increasingly constricted reality.

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