Lifelines: How COVID-19 Creates "Pre-Traumatic Conditions" in the Brain

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Parts of New Hampshire’s economy are starting to open up, but a stay-at-home order remains in effect. We’re still crowded into houses with restless kids, still out of work, and still missing a lot of the things we used to do. 

Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk is a Boston-based psychiatrist, trauma researcher, and author of the best-selling book, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. He says the isolation of staying at home can create what he calls a “pre-traumatic condition.”

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