What Happened To You Open Discussion by

Powerful Conversation between Perry & Oprah

brookemaday — 2025-09-09 21:15:24 UTC

Healing doesn’t happen in isolation. Consistent, safe, and loving relationships are the strongest pathway to resilience and recovery.

brookemaday — 2025-09-09 21:16:38 UTC

“Safety is the beginning of every healing journey.”

brookemaday — 2025-09-09 21:17:03 UTC

brookemaday — 2025-09-09 21:18:25 UTC

Dr. Perry talks about dissociation (which can look like daydreaming or withdrawing) as a way to cope with stress. Do you think that when some students play video games it is a form of dissociation?

2025-09-11 19:39:27 UTC

Oprah

2025-09-13 12:44:42 UTC

No matter your thoughts on Oprah, she is amazing for how she has overcome her early trauma. Proof that healing from trauma is possible.

The younger you are, the more sensitive you are to your emotional climate

2025-09-15 17:13:03 UTC

"When children have abusive father's they begin to connect men with threat, anger, and fear." How will that affect your relationships with male teachers, coaches, and other healthy men entering your life?

2025-09-15 17:16:02 UTC

When children don't feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued get crushed.

2025-09-15 17:26:10 UTC

Fight, Flight, Freeze, FAWN

2025-09-17 01:56:49 UTC

I had never heard of this phrase; but made sure to jot it down. The term fawn was described as seeking to please or appease a threat to avoid conflict. This response can lead to people-pleasing, poor boundaries, and a loss of personal identity.

PTSD

2025-09-24 17:07:01 UTC

Intellectually, I know that PTSD manifests itself in different ways. However, I still had a mindset about what PTSD "looks like." I envisioned things like hypervigilance, shutting down, lashing out, etc. I never realized that the symptoms associated with PTSD can effect physical health to the extent it can: i.e. the diabetes example in chapter 5. Further, I never thought of symptoms like depression, difficulty sleeping or sleeping too much, feeling emotional, etc. as PTSD. However, I see this link in myself when certain events happen around me.