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==Commentary==

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|text=When fighting or running does not take care of the threat, we activate the last resort — the reptilian brain, the ultimate emergency system. This system is most likely to engage when we are physically immobilized, as when we are pinned down by an attacker or when a child has no escape from a terrifying caregiver. Collapse and disengagement are controlled by the DVC, an evolutionarily ancient part of the parasympathetic nervous system that is associated with digestive symptoms like diarrhea or nausea. It also slows down the heart and induces shallow breathing. Once this system takes over, other people, and we ourselves, cease to matter. Awareness is shut down, and we may no longer even register physical pain.

|author=Bessel van der Kolk

|ref=<ref>{{REFbook

|last=van der Kolk

|year=2014

|title=The Body Keeps the Score

|chapter=Chapter Five

|page=85

|note=

}}</ref>

{{SEEALSO}}

* [[Circumcision]]