How it starts – In our lives, we might have had experiences that led us to feel threatened and unsafe, we didn’t have the sense of how to process it in the moment. Because of this, our brain was unable to store the memory of that experience(s) in a linear and logical way. The memory sometimes ends up being scrambled and unprocessed in the brain. When this happens, our brain can end up perceiving that unprocessed memory as something that is still happening to us and rings the alarm bell, known as the Fight and Flight response. Over time, that consistent state of alarm in the body can have negative long term effects.