The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Yes, you need to detect whether somebody is getting upset with you, but if your amygdala goes into overdrive, you may become chronically scared that people hate you, or you may feel like they are out to get you.

The trauma may be over, but it keeps being replayed in continually recycling memories and in a reorganized nervous system.

Their cortisol increases much more in response to loud noises than does that of monkeys who were raised by their mothers.