Trauma destroys the hierarchical waiting system of beliefs used to navigate the world, causing a flooding of chaotic information and psychophysiological stress.

“if something happens to us that violates those assumptions then it blows The Waiting system it demolishes the waiting system that we use to prioritize our attention and everything comes flooding back”

Trauma can lead to a fundamental collapse of implicit belief systems, causing individuals to question basic assumptions about the world being benevolent, meaningful, and not random.

“finding that basically people's beliefs about these fundamental beliefs about the world seem to have gotten shattered that beliefs about the world being meaningless meaningful not random benevolent people being worthy all of a sudden people really question these very very basic beliefs”