Poor job of communicating by me. When you say, "If it's emotional that can come and go....or stay constant if the exposure is constant" this is what I'm referring to.
This freezing behavior is at the heart of the problem. It's like our stress response is on pause even after the stressor is gone. This is the physiological root cause. I'll be able to explain all this in depth and how to fix it (hopefully successfully), but I'm concerned people won't even hear me because it requires a shift in perspective, some imagination.
The "freezing" is the imprints I talked about in this post: