Quotes About Evocative cues

Adrenaline increases the sugar in your blood. Her stress response, overactivated by the recent trauma, increased her adrenaline—hence much more sugar in her blood. The dose of insulin that had worked in the past was no longer adequate. Furthermore, when she was exposed to any evocative cue, such as the sirens, her sensitized system had an overreaction, releasing very high levels of adrenaline and, in turn, leading to a huge release of sugar.

evocative cues"—basically any sensory input, like a sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch—can activate a traumatic memory.

This aggressive, impulsive lashing out is completely baffling to the teacher. He doesn't understand what is really going on. When he describes the scene to others, he'll say something like, "For no reason at all, he just came at me." This is one of the most common descriptions of the behavioral outbursts related to evocative cues: Out of the blue. Unpredictable. The behaviors seem unprovoked. Oprah: