When I was a teenager I used to do a lot of work with animals, horses and donkeys and dogs

even goats and on Wednesday nights I used to go with a friend and volunteer at a dog shelter

for a very brief period of time. We would go walk dogs in the shelter and then go eat burritos.

Admittedly I think the burritos was the most important part of it for us.

In any case there were dogs at the dog shelter as you can imagine that had been neglected

and abused and as soon as I say that you know what a dog like that acts like the dog grits

their teeth, their timid, their wine, they sometimes bark, sometimes they're dangerous, sometimes

they'll bite you. They're affected and it's very clear. These dogs have not been socialized to

understand PTSD, they don't know what that means, they don't have a DSM guide to dog psychology.

This is just a state of being that all of us are aware of and humans get into these states as well

and there are different terms and different psychological approaches. PTSD is often used post-traumatic

stress disorder to refer to a whole series of conditions that happen after experiencing or

nearly experiencing death, whether that's violence or war, whether that's any kind of death or

violence. However, there is another term called post-traumatic stress injury. The idea that

our brain, our nervous system in fact is actually injured and perhaps like that dog, many of us

are unable to control our behavior and it is not something that's learned, it's not something

that is necessarily in reaction to something socialized or a social construct or a learned behavior.

There's no kind of framework for it, it is something that is visceral for people. I don't know

if this is true but I'm very interested. We'll dive deep on this week's podcast including some

potential ways to treat this if you or someone you love is suffering from trauma and overcoming

trauma. If you're new here it's the Lucas Rockwood show, I'm a yoga teacher and trainer,

I'm a serial entrepreneur, I'm the father of three kids but firstly I'm a student so I use this

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