03/01/2026
Did you know PTSD actually changes how your brain functions? 🧠💔
This isn’t weakness — it’s survival.
• Amygdala (the alarm system) 🚨
PTSD makes the amygdala overactive, so your brain stays in fight-or-flight mode even when you’re safe. Fear responses come faster and stronger.
• Prefrontal Cortex (the brakes) 🛑
This part helps you think logically and regulate emotions. In PTSD, it becomes less active, making it harder to calm yourself or feel in control.
• Hippocampus (memory center) 🧩
Trauma affects how memories are stored. Memories may feel fragmented, confusing, or stuck in the present instead of the past.
• Why everything feels triggering
Your brain links present situations to past trauma, creating anxiety, fear, avoidance, and emotional overwhelm.
• Healing is possible 🌱
Trauma-focused therapy, EMDR, and safe emotional processing can help your brain relearn safety. The brain is neuroplastic — it can heal.
✨ PTSD doesn’t change who you are.
It shows what you survived.