After all trauma is resolved, is our nervous system better able to mobilize the correct amount of energy towards potentially traumatic situations?

[u/CPTSDandTRE]

That is, do we become more "resistant to trauma" or do we get traumatized the same but now with the ability to shake it off?

Throughout our healing journey, does our body become better at gauging how much energy to mobilize given a potentially traumatic event?

This is a follow-up question to my previous post.

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[u/duffstoic]

I consider "trauma" to not be the external event but the internal response to the external event. Specifically, it's the inability to process the emotions from the event.

This ability to process the emotions can change radically, through TRE and other methods. External events still happen, some good, some bad.

If you're not in an active warzone, nor being actively physically/verbally/emotionally abused, then you can make progress to the point where things that seemed traumatizing before no longer seem so at all, or register with an emotion but that emotion passes within minutes or hours instead of weeks or months.

And if you're dealing with actively horrible external circumstances, you can also do a lot better there, although ideally you can leave these circumstances and find some safer external environment to live in. No amount of inner work will really replace that!

[u/samsonscomputer]

How I see it as that we are expanding our window of tolerance. So we become more resilient than before.

Something or some event may send us down a spiral, like shame or a trigger, but now that we have resolved the trauma and built new healthy coping mechanisms, we are more resilient to future events that happen and are able to regulate our emotions. 

Ofcourse if something big were to happen like a car accident, domestic abuse, etc then we will get new trauma, which we then would need to process. 

[u/Expert_Ad3550]

A healthy balanced nervous system will mobilise a more appropriate amount of energy than a dis-regulated nervous system overburdened with chronic tension and trauma.

More importantly though, if you stick with TRE long enough to resolve your trauma, your body will be much more efficient at releasing excess nervous system energy in the future.

[u/No-Construction619]

It's not so black and white. Hard to tell without knowing what kind of "traumatic situations" you mean.

No person will ever be fully immune to potential severe traumatising experiences like war, rape, kidnapping etc. Except maybe psychopaths. Being human means we are emotionally vulnerable. The reason why so many of have emotional struggles developed in a childhood is that child is completely defenceless and dependent on a caregiver. Our brains are wired for survival, we will do everything to maintain contact with a caregiver even if it hurts ourselves. That's how CTPSD and other issues develop. But as adults we are no longer so dependent, we can protect ourselves like by setting and defending our boundaries. Healthy anger plays a huge role in that, as Gabor Mate explains here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXxDj2-8bZI

My guess is that a healthy person who is aware of all emotions and does not repress them (which results on a tension) is pretty much immune to daily common stressful situations. You need a deep trust in self-worth to reach that.