It's something experiential story that you tell yourself, a narrative that is now functionally changing the way that the brain works. Is that the direction that we're into here? Correct. So The chronic stress causes your emotional brain to become hyperactive where now you're always watching for something bad to happen. So that's the negativity bias. So the more ACE score you have, the higher your ACE score, the more likely you are to notice the negative. (35:49–36:01)
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