We don’t really talk about how the nervous system can get stuck in hyper or hypo arousal due to Complex trauma. What that means is, because of your childhood trauma, of never feeling safe, your nervous system never felt safe enough to switch out of fight or flight mode and into rest and digest. So then you don’t need a trigger to go into a trauma response of fight, flight, freeze or fawn. You can end up living with these responses as part of your day to day life. And you wonder why you are so reactive. And other people end up wondering why you are so reactive too. Know that this is common with complex trauma, that you make sense and that you CAN heal from complex trauma.