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# Repeated exposure to another person's volatility...
> Repeated exposure to another person's volatility can condition the nervous system so that a single call, tone, or name retrieves years of alarm. Distance is sometimes the interval required for the body to learn that the emergency is no longer continuous.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Boundaries, Survival, and Refusing to Become a Toxic Dumping Ground — Part 2 - Workbook|Boundaries, Survival, and Refusing to Become a Toxic Dumping Ground — Part 2]]
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“Repeated exposure to another person's volatility can condition the nervous system so that a single call, tone, or name retrieves years of alarm. Distance is sometimes the interval required for the body to learn that the emergency is no longer continuous.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-repeated-exposure-another-no-longer-continuous
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