Your Nervous System's "Home Away From Home": How Trauma Shows Up as Diagnoses

Trauma — large or small — can pull us into a default state that isn't home: sympathetic activation or dorsal vagal shutdown, and most of us lean toward one. This clip maps those states onto what family physicians actually see in clinic. Chronic sympathetic activation can look like hypertension, anxiety, insomnia; dorsal vagal shutdown can look like fibromyalgia, IBS, chronic constipation, depression. A concrete bridge between polyvagal theory and everyday primary care presentations.

Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4