Oprah Winfrey

From as early as I can remember, I knew I was on my own.

Mike’s brain adapted to continuous threat—his body and brain became oversensitive and overreactive to any threat-related signals from the world. Back then, to stay alive, his brain made a connection—basically a specialized form of memory—between the sounds of gunfire and shelling and the need to activate an extreme survival response.”

What kept you alive in Korea is killing you back home. We have to figure out how to help your stress-response systems become less reactive and supersensitive