PTSD is always autonomic, yet if we wish to address the underlying autonomic layer, we need to understand not merely the events that were traumatic, but how a person's autonomic nervous system responded. What is most important to understand if we are solutioning is not what happened that caused the stress-related injury, but whether the person's nervous system responded by fighting, fleeing, shutting down, or some combination of the above.

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