Principlev1PR-1678
Treat disproportionate emotional responses as signals…
Treat disproportionate emotional responses as signals of unresolved past experience rather than irrational overreactions, because intensity mismatches indicate trauma-linked associations.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Trauma recalibrates the nervous system's threat detection… (trauma recalibrates threat detection) and Context-Dependent Memory Encoding (memory is context-dependent). This prescribes interpreting disproportionate responses as signals rather than errors, based on axioms about how trauma and memory function.