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Episode 6: When Survival Mode Becomes the Norm, Learned Helplessness & Chronic Parental PTSD
Amy J.'s children have been out of high school for two years. Her phone rings and she still feels it in her body — the same PTSD jolt she got every time the school called about one of her kids. There is no danger. The phone is not going to attack her. Her nervous system has not caught up with her current circumstances.
That is the essence of this episode in one image. Dr. Ed Callahan and Amy J. take on what living in survival mode does to a parent over years, and why so many parents cannot see it happening. It is the frog in the boiling water: the temperature rises slowly, you adapt, and you…
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