The brain is trying to protect you, even when the protection is outdated.
Harper makes symptoms less mysterious by treating them as nervous-system strategies with a history.
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Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
5 memorable lines from Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers by Faith G. Harper, each with the idea behind it.
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Naming the reaction creates a little room to choose.
The first practical win is language: triggered, flooded, shut down, activated, dissociated.
Shame makes every spiral stickier.
The book repeatedly separates having a reaction from being broken or bad.
Regulation has to happen before reasoning works well.
When the body is in alarm, the smartest thought may be a breath, a walk, or a safe person.
The goal is not never freaking out; it is recovering faster.
Progress looks like a shorter loop, a kinder repair, and fewer secondary attacks on yourself.
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