The amygdala, an area of the brain that contributes to emotional processing is responsible for the response and memory of emotions, especially fear. The amygdala is the reason we are afraid of things outside our control. It also controls the way we react to the world, or an event that causes an emotion, that we see as threatening or dangerous. The fight-or-flight-or-freeze response. Studies have found that the amygdala is particularly sensitive to stress in early life such as during infancy and early childhood. Experiencing childhood adversity produces long lasting structural and functional changes in the amygdala. As a behavioral result – you easily freak out over everything – which cues your neural system for vigorously consistent and chronic overreactions, which leads to hypersensitivity and overactivity of the amygdala – which is at the core of anxiety-based disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, PTSD that block positive, rational responses to stress.Â
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