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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

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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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