Tag: survival mode brain changes

• How Shopping, Sex & Substance Abuse Can Rewire Your Brain

  

  Trauma rewires your brain’s reward system, making quick fixes like substances, shopping, or sex more tempting. But fast relief is temporary and can worsen anxiety, guilt, and shame. Even marijuana, seen as harmless, can trap survivors in a cycle of anxiety. Trauma therapies help restore calm and make healthy coping feel rewarding again

  Liana West

  August 14, 2025

  Superconscious Mind

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