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Natural Disaster Survivors

uppityperson

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1. You can not predict when something like this will happen or what will set it off. Our flight/fight

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 12:21 AM

Jun 2013

brains are wired to protect us and sometimes it just happens. It is embarrassing but glad you had someone with you to keep you safe, to keep that part of your mind ok. Recognizing what the trigger was, afterwards, can help next time if/when it happens as your monkey mind can talk to your reptilian mind "it's ok, you got through it" which helps.

Best wishes.

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Got caught in a dust devil a few days ago and freaked. [View all] Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 OP

You can not predict when something like this will happen or what will set it off. Our flight/fight uppityperson Jun 2013 #1

Thanks Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 #2

48 yrs after the tornado, I freaked. uppityperson Jun 2013 #3