After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment. (Judith Lewis Herman)

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

Judith Lewis Herman

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