Weekly Unravel: Avoidant Attachment & Avoidance

Avoidance is a behavior that is adaptive to not wanting to feel something the nervous system and brain deem is too uncomfortable or unsafe. It is a early adaptive behavior and we needed it to survive a particular time. The thing is, avoidance of distress perpetuates and maintains the experience of distress. So what we work so hard psychologically to avoid, we keep close by.

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