Post-Incarceration Syndrome means your mind and body adapted to survive in a high-stress, high-control environment. Those behaviors were not character flaws.
They were survival skills.
Your brain did exactly what it needed to do to protect you.
But when someone returns to the community, those same survival responses can interfere with stability.
At Pathways to Success™, we use a structured P.I.C.S. worksheet to help participants identify which survival patterns are still active.