What is the ACoA trauma syndrome?

What is the ACoA trauma syndrome?

According to ACoA treatment expert Tian Dayton, the ACoA experiences the following during their development: “Intense feeling states get wired into kids, and rather than absorb skills of emotional calm and regulation from their homes they absorb states of emotional chaos and extremes. (You might say they get skilled at over-or under-reacting.)

Then as adults when they are in the midst of intense emotions, which are after all simply a part of life and relationships for anyone, they have trouble keeping their emotional reactions right-sized.” ACoAs tend to experience PTSD later in life. Their nervous systems have been hard-wired in childhood to be on-guard, hypervigilant, scanning the environment for threat. In essence, ACoAs tend to map their childhood feelings on to current relationships even if there might not be any threat at all(and if there is, there’s a choice to cut and run!)