Within one to three months
- The changes in anatomy, biology and neurology become chronic.
- People become more vulnerable to such event in the future.
- The body loses its natural rhythms for regulating arousal and relaxation, entering a seesaw between hyper-arousal and hypo-arousal.
- Moving the person from explosive emotions to numbness, fatigue, detachment and isolation.
- The adrenal system gets exhausted and the opioids system throws traumatized people off, altering their sense of time and place.
- Their attention becomes riveted on the trauma.
-- Adapted from G.Ross Beyond the Trauma Vortex, 2003
