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Scenario

Why Trauma Makes Fictional Violence Feel Real

I have not been able to watch movies or read books about violence since it happened because they make me feel sick

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system cannot distinguish between imagined and actual threat when trauma has sensitized the system to violence-related stimuli.

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Patan
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Peri

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